"The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects."

-- Martin Filler

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“When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!”
“I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.”
“I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's not who you know, but who you are that matters most.”

Source : "CBS: Woman of the Week", 2006.
“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”

Source : "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
“The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.”

Source : "The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England". Book by Edward Coke, 1642.
“Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know”

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