The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.

All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind.

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

Money cannot buy the moments of grace.

If your doctor told you that you needed immediate surgery could you perform it yourself?

Love and adventure are life's condiments.

Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.

We cannot hate those who we despise.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

I am very comfortable saying what I believe I can do, being very specific about how we will do it, how we will pay for it, and having people know that I want them to hold me accountable.

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.