A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.