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"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
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"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."
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"The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power."
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"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
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"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."
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"I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry."
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"I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane."
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"From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions."
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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."
Architecture
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
Confidence
"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
Design
"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
Years
"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
Nature
"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
Experience
"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
Goal
"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
Architecture
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
Nature
"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
Conscience
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