Science is about knowing engineering is about doing.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Form follows failure.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

Stars don’t need words to be heard

For when you look at the ceiling, or down at the floor, when the trouble's before you, you're begging for more.

If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.