How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

The impossible happens.