Quotes

“Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Albert Einstein

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ”

John Cage

“Climate is an angry beast, and we are poking at it with sticks.”

Wallace Brocker, scientist

“You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.”

Proverb

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

Jimi Hendrix

“Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.”

Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogota, Columbia

“True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. ”

Tom Robbins

“If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.”

Chinese proverb + favorite saying of Emilie Baker, David's mom

“It is impossible to have progress without conscience.”

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing—that's what counts.”

Richard Feynman

“Stimulate imagination, evoke emotions, bring pleasure or do nothing.”

Alexander Girard

“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ”

R. Buckminster Fuller

“Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. ”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Eco non ego (resonance, not self).”

Matteo Thun

“Anyone who don't love this life is crazy.”

Manual, Manual's Tavern, Atlanta, Georgia

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not!”

Dr. Seuss

“Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.”

Maya Angelou

“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”

Francisco de Goya

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

Dolly Parton

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

Frank Zappa

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

Thomas Fuller

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

Eliel Saarinen

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Gandhi

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Reduce parking demand through limiting the absolute amount of spaces and prioritizing the spaces for short-term and ride-share uses.”

The San Francisco General Plan

“Conventional wisdom is the opposite of common sense.”

Merritt Sher

“Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it?”

E.B. White

“Preoccupation with our own interests—our own narrow desires, ambitions, and goals—undermines our ability to be compassionate. Conversely, the more we concern ourselves with providing for others’ well-being, the more meaningful our lives become and the happier we ourselves will be.”

The Dalai Lama

“If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space. My favorite piece of sculpture is a solid wall with a hole in it to frame the space on the other side.”

Andy Warhol

“There is something bigger and more worth while than the things we see about us, the things we live by and strive for. There is an undiscovered beauty, a divine excellence, just beyond us. Let us stand on tiptoe, forgetting the nearer things and grasp what we may.”

Bernard Maybeck, 1923

“Everything that can be digital will be digital.”

Craig Kanarick, Chief Scientist, Razorfish