"It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people to help the poor, you have people who won't be paid if there aren't any poor, so they'll be sure to find some."

-- Jerry Pournelle

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“I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.”
“Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.”

Source : César Pelli (1999). “Observations for young architects”, Monacelli Pr
“Lotus Eaters is a movie about people who can't really be alone, but they're always alone, really, even when they're together.”
“We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough."”
“The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.”
“The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.”
“I'd like to expand the definition of the word 'success' to include 'failure' as the one seems inseparable from the other.”
“I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.”

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