The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

I think that what you’ve got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

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You're awake," he said. "Phresine is not," pointed out the queen. "Oh?" "You gave her lethium." "She gave it to me first.

A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Psychology, a psychological viewpoint that says that I am over here and you are over there.

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