And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.-Revelations 20:9

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

My favorite project is always the next one.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.

My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.

Be yourself. No one else can.

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

I didn't start cooking until I was thirty-two. Until then, I just ate. - Julia Child

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.