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"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."
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"Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important."

"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"

"Thinking is a personalized activity that can lead us into a state of happiness or cause us to be sad. Who we are becomes a product of how we think. What we think about and how we integrate knowledge into a comprehensive schema regulates our evolving self-identity. The precision of the human mind and the interplay between cognitive thinking and reactive emotions plays a central role in self-identity."

"It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker."

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"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."

"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society."

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"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future."

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"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."
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