The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.
Technology is the answer, but what was the question?
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
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 must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.
We're much better at dealing with dyslexia today than in 50th, but reading difficulties are still a problem in the U. K. I believe there's currently something like eleven thousand functionally illiterate adults in the U. K.
When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.
I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made it plausible to have your very own platform to stand and spew nonsense from on an hourly basis. There's an old saying: when everyone is special, no one will be. These days, everybody thinks they're special, so no one really does anything to be special anymore.