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I've had many strike partners over the years and usually their aim is to outscore you - and take great pleasure in doing so. ”
I think there was a time where the target man went out of fashion and it was all about the small and quick striker. ”
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. ”
Sol LeWitt had a huge influence on my work because of his use of repetition and his clarity, setting up a system and letting that system go. That's kind of where the text paintings came from. ”
It's hard to improve our schools. It's hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class wages. But it might be easier to lower middle-class costs by building more housing. ”
After a young adulthood trying to get him to see the world for how it really is, my brother Wes and I have come back to the way our dad is, realizing that it's sometimes our job to see the world as it could be, as we want it to be. ”
I think companies psych themselves out and say, 'Now that we're public, we've got to get all stuffy. We've got to be a certain way,' and the entrepreneurial spirit dies. What you got to keep alive is the intimacy, the energy, this crazed sense of purpose. ”
Steve Jobs knows how to hold his hand out, to build beautiful products and make people pay for them. ”
Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs. ”
I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se. ”