出自汉·桓宽《盐铁论·未通》。修筑城墙的人，首先要加厚城墙的地基，然后再把城墙垒高；善于养民的人，首先要巩固人民的产业，然后才能使他们走向富裕。要使人民实现富裕，首先要使人民有稳定的工作。国家应该合理地配置土地资源，使农民有地可耕；还应该整治社会治安，稳定市场秩序，沟通贸易渠道，使商人有买卖可做。只有做好了这些基本工作，人民才能逐渐走向富裕。

The best art leaves you with more questions than answers.

The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation—if I may use that biological term—that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.

建筑应该展示它的结构，而不是隐藏它。

God will forgive me; it's his job.

写作是探索我们内心的未知。