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.
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their – shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.
This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn’t created to take you to heaven.
As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.
It’s interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.