It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.
William H. WhytePeople very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.
William H. WhyteThe onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.
William H. WhytePeople do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.
William H. WhyteSo-called 'undesirables' are not the problem. It is the measures taken to combat them that is the problem.
William H. WhyteNonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.
William H. Whyte