無臂鋼琴王子

Money created via Debt

Competitive Currency Devaluation: a method in which grants the US ( Federal Reserve) the divine power to print infinite amount of money at will to finance its budget deficits and conduct lavish economic bailouts without worrying about currency devaluation, thus giving the Fed every reason to print money at no cost while driving the nation into perpetual debt. Money created via Debt = a legalized ponzi scheme.

A Michelin 3 Star

Quality

"When you do things with quality, people could only say 'they don't like it', but not 'its a rubbish.' " - Victoria Beckham on her fashion brand

Second is a charm

"Everything is a fresh start, I love to do every project that I've ever looked at and have a second bite at it because you could always go one step further. And if you cant go one step further, then it means you haven't learned what you done before, and you are not sharp, then  its time to stop and do something else."

- Lord Norman Foster, from film How Much Does Your Building Weigh Mr. Foster.

Now I Understand

Joanna Wang:

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you

History of Comupter, tribute to the centennial birth of Alan Turing

  

Originally invented to decode enemy telegraph during WW1 and 2, the arthmetic machine later became a complex machinry capable of handling laborious commericial operations during post war. The invention of integrated circuit in the 80s made of silicon chips ultimately shrank its overal size down to a single chip, allowing computers to be made small enough to be handled by single individual - and thus Personal Computers are born.

Guy Kawasaki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR_wX0EwOMM&feature=related

What I Regret

I'm more likely to regret purchasing things, and regret not purchasing experiences.

I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.

I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

"In this world it is not what we take up, but whate we give up, that make us rich. " - Fortune Cookie

Visual Acoustics

"Life is good, life can be beautiful, what more can I ask?" - Julius Shulman

每個人都想明白誰是自己生命不該錯過的真愛特別在午夜醒來更是會感慨心動埋怨還有不能釋懷都是因為你觸碰了愛如果這就是愛再轉身就該勇敢留下來就算受傷就算流淚都是生命裡溫柔灌溉哦愛在回憶裡總是那麼明白困惑的心流過的淚還有數不清黑夜等待如果這就是愛如果你當時明白後來的生命裡是快樂還是悲哀特別在夜深人靜時想起未來是否能平靜不會想現在只是因為你擁有了愛如果這就是愛再轉身就該勇敢留下來就算受傷就算流淚都是生命裡溫柔灌溉哦愛在回憶裡總是那麼明白困惑的心流過的淚還有數不清黑夜等待如果這就是愛

張學友

今天我　寒夜裡看雪飄過
　懷著冷卻了的心窩飄遠方
　風雨裡追趕　霧裡分不清影蹤
　天空海闊你與我　可會變 (誰沒在變)

多少次　迎著冷眼與嘲笑
從沒有放棄過心中的理想
一剎那恍惚　若有所失的感覺
不知不覺已變淡　心裡愛 (誰明白我)

原諒我這一生不羈放縱愛自由
　也會怕有一天會跌到
　背棄了理想　誰人都可以
　那會怕有一天只你共我

曲詞：黃家駒

Michael Rotondi in 5

"The reason you want to know everything about everything is so you can be in charge"

“Contemplation is a word of action”

“The degree to which you know yourself is the degree to which you know the world”

“What optimism is, is creativity”

“Trial and error is the way to learn”

- Michael Rontondi, Roto Architecture

"How a person masters his/her fate is more important than what his/her fate is." - Wilhelm von Humboldt

"How a person master's his/her fate is more than what his/her fate is" - Wilhelm von Humboldt

"Things will happen, so its about how you deal with them." - Chris Bosh

"The game is not won in the first minute, it is won in the last minute." - Dwayne Wade

"Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problems. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals. " - Margaret Mead

回憶總是比較完美

和你在一起

"I don't think you can be a pessimistic architect, because even if you have no work, you are still working with drawings, you are still working on future ideas. These buildings get built later." - Daniel Libesking, an Optimistic Architect.

Transendence

"Perfection is not just about be in control, its also about letting go; Surprise yourself so you could surprise the audience - Transendence. " - Thomas Leroy to Nina Sayer, Black Swan.

Life Work

Encouraging words from Michael Rotondi's Summer Studio, entitled Life Work:

"Now is a time of faith and fear.
The world you are about to inherit is not the one you had envisioned.
The conflict of generations is upon you, and you are ready.
Things have changed more than you could have imagined and you now have to find comfort in uncertainty.

No problem you are still young enough to consider uncertainty a friend.
Life has become a real adventure again and now,
you have the opportunity to invent your own life.
There are none to inherit.

So [You] this studio will attempt to answer the questions:

“is it possible to invent a project, a life, and a society?”
“is it possible to be a leader without any followers?”
“is it possible to have a long term vision in a short cycle world?”
“is it possible to do good and do well, simultaneously?”
“is it possible to find an architectural equivalent?” "

- Michael Rotondi

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李宏彦

1.做自己喜歡做的事

2.做自己最擅長的事

3.專注到底

- 李宏彦, Baidu Co-Founder

Memories...

Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis(2001) ending + Ray Charles' classic.

Dedication

"When I was talking about providing an alternative way of making architecture, I want to address that to the students. What it means is that you don't have to be a slave in a corporate office, a groupie of a celebrity architect because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil, and the desire to make architecture."

- Raimund Abraham, last words of his lecture at Sci-arc before he died from a car accident hours after.

Something ought to be more significant

"For years I was tormented by guilt at having left the country for which I'd fought. I left my friends—some were in prison, others were dead, some managed to escape. I felt I was in debt to them and that I had to repay that debt. And I felt I had a mission. I had to do something important to regain the right to live. It wasn't just a question of music—it was something much more significant." - Iannis Xenakis, composer

"
你見 或者不見我
我就在那裡
不悲不喜

你念 或者不念我
情就在那裡
不來不去

你愛 或者不愛我
愛就在那裡
不增不減

你跟 或者不跟我
我手 就在你手裡
不舍不棄

默然　相愛　

寂靜　歡喜
" -　非誠勿擾

Lucid, Splippery Nuance of Sensational Physicality

"I think that art and architecture is an epiphenomenon. And what I mean by that is that it’s really what the name we give to the aesthetic experience you have in built form. It’s not a thing. It’s the assemblage or the experience. And that varies for different people. If that’s right, then the way you trigger that experience in people should be able to happen in many different ways. So the stories are based upon activating a bunch of different sense modalities and situations that create the possibility of having that kind of experience." - Coy Howard

Relationship Matters

3:48 - 5:45

Story of the 172 Hours

"Its not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me." - Bruce Wayne.

Designer is about being "Extremely quisitive, somewhat naive, and always have peripheral visions" - Hani Rashid, Co-Founder Asymptote.

Power !

``The U.S. government has a technology called a printing press that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost." - Ben Bernanke, Chairman - US Federal Reserve.

No Choice but to Believe

"The first step before everybody else believes you is that you have to believe it. There is no reason to have plan B because it distracts from plan A." - Will Smith, Actor

"He who says he can, and he who says he can't - are both usually right." - Confucious.

The only way for you to move forward is to burn all bridges behind you.