The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
世界就是它本来的样子；那些什么都不是的人，那些允许自己变得什么都不是的人，在这个世界上没有立足之地。
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
系统产生需求的速度比满足需求的速度更快。
Nowadays, particularly in the United States, if you meet someone at the bottom of society, they may unkindly be described as a "loser." There's a real difference between an unfortunate and a loser, and that shows 400 years of evolution in society and our belief in who is responsible for our lives. It's no longer the gods, it's us. We're in the driving seat.