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"The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness."
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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?"

"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."

"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."

"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

"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."

"But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long."

"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements."
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."

"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went."

"The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist."

"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."

"As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood."

"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
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