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"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."
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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."
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"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"
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"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy."
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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
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"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
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"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
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"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
Father
"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."
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"One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course."
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"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
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"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."
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"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."
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"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
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"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
Father
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