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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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"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
"I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do."
"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
"For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation."
"On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all."
"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."
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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."
"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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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."
"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
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