“Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.”

“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.”

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”

“The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.”

“Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.”

“The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.”

“The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.”