I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.