“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or pain...” — Milton Friedman Quote

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.

To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

Both Republicans and Democrats championed a structure that allowed the 'application layer' of Internet architecture to be free from government intervention, apart from occasional Federal Trade Commission activity.