Don’t be the smartest person in the room. Hangout with， and learn from， people smarter than yourself. Even better， find smart people who will disagree with you.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

晏子春秋

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

Architecture is about creating connections - between people, between spaces, between past and future.

成功的关键是关注长期，而不是短期收益。