Brazil will change when its cities change.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.

The city is not the problem; the city is the solution.

The lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act. The idea that action should only be taken after all the answers and the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every possible variable has been controlled.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.