Architecture should not shout. It should whisper to people's lives.

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 legacy of a scientist is not in the papers published, but in the minds inspired."

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.