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"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds."
"Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment."
"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves."
"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it."
"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."
"The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful."
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