Certification standards are meaningless without rigorous enforcement.

In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night… You-only you-will have stars that can laugh…

I don't have any sense of myself except as an actor.

"The most beautiful things are the ones we don't understand."

The best architecture comes from a synthesis of all the elements that separately comprise a building: the structure that holds it up; the services that allow it to function; the ecology of the building - its relationship to the surroundings; the quality of natural light; the symbolism of the form; the relationship of the building to the skyline.

"In computational biology, we are not just solving problems; we are uncovering the fundamental principles of life."