Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.