Architecture should be quiet, but not silent.

醉中插花，花莫笑我，可怜春天也像人一样即将老去

Empathy is the key to innovation.

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

最好的创新往往是对最顽固问题的最简单解决方案。