Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much. . . ) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.
All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give them a placebo.
To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.