Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

Prayer means God of mercy have pity on us.

Thou shalt not stand idly by

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

Decency renders all things tolerable.

It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.