The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

I do what I can do when I can do it.

Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.