"I think buildings should imitate ecological systems."

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Source : "CNN" Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

Ken Yeang

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“I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.”
“Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”

Source : William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.83, Penguin
“If you trace back all those links in the chain that had to be in place for me to be here, the laws of probability maintain that my very existence is miraculous. But then after however many decades, less than a hundred years, they disburse and I cease to be. So while they're all congregated and coordinated to make me, then-and I speak her on behalf of all those trillions of atoms-I should really make the most of things.”
“Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, â€˜Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'”
“Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.”

Source : Robert Heller (1984). “The supermanagers: managing for success, the movers and the doers, the reasons why”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.”

Source : "Dikembe Mutombo stands tall for charity". Interview with Giacinta Pace, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2010.
“With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.”

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