You don't get new products and services out of sameness.

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

New ideas often need old buildings.

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.

Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.