Project Difficulty Quotes

'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

'PhotoCard' has 20 times as much code as the sum of 'QuickDraw,' 'MacPaint,' and 'HyperCard.' It is more elaborate and complicated, with all the client and server stuff. It took a lot more of me to do this than other projects, requiring an almost Mother Teresa dedication to do it.

'Green Screen' was a total experiment. I'm glad we did it, but it was just tough on that network to get it going.

When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.

When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.