A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.

Hey! Jack the Wanker! Over here! I want your autograph!

Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.

Disorder created connections──that is, resonance.

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.

We need a dramatic improvement in the way we train people who get displaced.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.