"Infrastructure is much more important than architecture."

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Source : "The NS Interview: Rem Koolhaas, architect". Interview with Samira Shackle, www.newstatesman.com. May 16, 2012.

Rem Koolhaas

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“A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 384), 1895.
“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.”
“Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.”
“Evil has always existed, the perfect world most people seek shall never come to pass and itâ€™s gonna get worse.”
“The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.”
“An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.”
“The body isn't there simply to carry the head.”
“A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”

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