Santiago Calatrava Quotes

If you build a 70,000-seat stadium it will cost much more than double to build than a 35,000-seater. The higher the seat the more expensive it is to construct.

I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw the size of the problem. I mean, from were people on that weekend that thought they'd had a solution. And then the hole kept getting bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden became apparent that 20 billion wouldn't do it and 30 billion wouldn't do it and 40 billion wouldn't do it. So it got beyond anybody's ability to certainly to do it in a short period of time.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

We build roads and they cost two and three and four times what they're supposed to cost.

No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured.

This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one.

I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars.

We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

After announcing that the Stealth bomber would overrun by 16%, and would cost over half a billion:] Whatever it costs, it's worth it.

We have trouble, my friends, in the country, because we have too much money owing, the greatest indebtedness that has every been given to civilization … Two hundred and seventy-two thousand millions of dollars of debts are owed by the various people of this country today. Why, my friends, that cannot be paid. It is not possible for that kind of debt to be paid.

Without any payment? Your Majesty, that would cost too much.

History is rife with stories of directors who got so obsessed that their films went massively over budget - out of control.

Student loan debt is a real problem. People want to have serious conversations about that.

Talk about dues, we paid a damn ton of 'em. So many that if things ever went too smoothly, it would ruin the group.

As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran. But that's no excuse for remaining silent about this growing problem or failing to champion reform.

College costs are out of control.

An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.