Architecture is a battle against gravity.
"We are all products of our time, for better or worse."
The past is always carried into the present by small things.
You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.
The best literature is that which disturbs, which unsettles, which refuses to console.
书籍不仅仅是物品;它们是经历,它们改变我们。
Agriculture is the most honorable of professions, for it sustains life itself.
Profitability and responsibility can go hand in hand.