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

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

The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.

Americans don't really think that other places are as real as America.

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

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