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.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

I think that part of the growing popularity of the New Urbanism is not simply because it is so rational, and not simply because people care so much about community or even understand it, or the relation of sprawl to the ruination of the natural world. But they just don't like what is around. And they will be ruthless with it.

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.