"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

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Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

Arthur Erickson

#Space Quotes #Focus Quotes #Design Quotes

“The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.”
“I'm just happy to be working.”
“With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world.”
“This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special aptitude for mathematics. When they leave the material, the children very easily reach the point where they wish to write out the operation. They can thus carryout an abstract mental operation and acquire a kind of natural and spontaneous inclination for mental calculations.”
“The only way to train for a startup is by starting.”
“Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you”

Source : David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.381, Hachette UK
“I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .”

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