It’s not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it — who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet — that they can occasionally find one.

The minerals we extract today must serve the needs of future generations as well.

"The present is a fragile bridge between the past and the future, and we are all just trying to cross it without falling."

"Die Kunst ist die Tochter der Freiheit."

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

In the realm of computer science, mathematical rigor is the cornerstone upon which reliable and efficient algorithms are built.