Maya Lin Quotes

If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.

I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

Every choice you make has an end result.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.

The end crowneth the work.

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.

Consider the end

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

One of the reasons I work with technology the way I do is that I can really be assured that the vision I have from the outset is what will be at the end. And that that vision isn't altered through the process.

I am not hugely concerned about the amount of goals we score - it is the final results that are the difference.

As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.

Most of the job on DDP was already done by the time I became mayor. So was Gwanghwamun Square, described by many architects as the city's worst architectural creation, and the new city hall. I did not think that redoing them would be the right approach as that would only create new problems.

We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

It doesn’t matter what you are ranked until the end.

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

All is well that ends well

We ought to consider the end in everything.

It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.