The architect's role is to mediate between the dreams of the client and the realities of the site.

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The best way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.