I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand.' It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.