"New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time"

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Source : Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”

Gottfried Bohm

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“I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.”
“If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth”
“Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.”

Source : Source: www.lidf.co.uk
“Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.”
“My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.”
“Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.”
“If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in â€œcreative leaps,â€ no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.”

Source : "Reasons to Believe". Personal blog post, www.scottaaronson.com. September 04, 2006.
“I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.”

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