Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, “You make mathematics seem like fun.” I was inspired to reply, “If it isn’t fun, why do it?”
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.
Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it’s hard to think of anything else.
Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.
The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms.
Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.
Most trails can be fairly simple.
Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.
All I know is that the Internet will transform the world.
Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can’t make it worse.
I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life’s greatest reward.
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.
Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.
Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.