Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

如果你不能保持灵活的思路，就会抓狂，忽视解决问题的其他可能性。

Architecture is about making places, not just spaces.

最终，我们都在试图找到自己在世界上的位置，理解周围的混乱。

“世界会打破每个人，之后，许多人在破碎的地方变得坚强。”

We are all walking around with an evolutionary user's manual in our heads, but most people don't realize it.