"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."

"I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things."

"Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis."

"When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan."

"Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it."

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

"I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too."

"When we look at machine learning today, we see a tool that amplifies human creativity rather than replacing it, which will inevitably reshape society."