Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
文明是一条有岸的河流。河流有时充满了人们杀戮、偷窃、喊叫和做历史学家通常记录的事情的血，而在岸上，不被注意，人们建造家园，做爱，抚养孩子，唱歌，写诗，甚至雕刻雕像。文明的故事是发生在岸上的故事。
The best discoveries often come from unexpected places.
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
We are all haunted by the shadows of our former selves.
一个人越是激进，就越能完全地进入现实，从而更好地了解它，进而改变它。
天然气是通往更清洁能源未来的桥梁，但我们必须负责任地跨越这座桥梁。
A nation without memory is a nation without a future.
作为一名建筑师，你为现在而设计，带着对过去的认知，为一个本质上未知的未来而设计。