The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.

I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at J. Press. I have a blue blazer that I wear 80 percent of the time.

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.