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"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"

"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."

"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

"Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know."

"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."
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"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."

"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."

"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."
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