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"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
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"Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done."
"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."
"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."
"You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want."
"Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness."
"A fool's bolt is soon shot."
"We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences."
"There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences."
"Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise."
"Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences."
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"You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction."
"We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't."
"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."
"A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it."
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