Mark Twain Quotes

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

The civil service are risk averse.

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

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better.

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

Had I stepped onto Noah's Ark, I do not think I should have been more astounded.

The Navajo Nation spends most of its time jumping through hoops.

Airbags are a lot of baloney, no matter what Allstate says or no matter what the DOT says.

All lawyers are going to have to - if we really want to attain civil justice - address the issue of how complicated we have made the laws: what we have done to ensnarl the American people in bureaucratic rules and regulations that make access to services or compliance with the law sometimes difficult, if not impossible.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

The problem we are trying to solve is that of drugs that would have never seen the light of day for reasons that have nothing to do with the inherent properties of drug candidates themselves and more to do with bureaucratic institutions within which they often sit.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

[On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.

The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.