"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."

"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."

"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

"What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority."

"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."

"We must ensure that AI remains a profound challenge to our understanding of consciousness, making it the most important technology of our century."

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."

"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."