They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I call architecture frozen music.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

I’m filthy rich!

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

I don’t like drinking, basically.