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"So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course."
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"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."

"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"

"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change."

"Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences."

"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."

"Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea."

"Send a solid idea to beyond this universe!A neighbour universe will soon be existed."
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"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour."

"So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position."

"You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us."

"It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world."

"Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work."
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