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How Buildings Learn
“Well, I wrote a whole book called How Buildings Learn, which is probably my best book, and it’s certainly the most successful.”
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“Well, I wrote a whole book called How Buildings Learn, which is probably my best book, and it’s certainly the most successful.”
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01 / belief
“Certainly in this century, I think we’ll have what looks like and acts like woolly mammoths back.”
02 / belief
“Whenever anybody says something disparaging about Silicon Valley and tech bros and so on, I think of Patrick and think, “Well, that’s bullsh — .”
03 / belief
“I think that’s very good in terms of long-term thinking because people who are older have a longer “now.”
04 / belief
“Kim Stanley Robinson recently did a book called, I think, Aurora, where he basically makes your point and my point: that if you get people out that far, the wear and tear on the social fabric, on the biology, on everything — you cannot isolate a very complex biological system like humans for that long and expect to get anywhere that’s useful.”
05 / belief
“I was jumping out of airplanes and climbing things and doing all the dangerous stuff that you do when you’re young and witless. That one, I think, was an outgrowth of the Bay Area of Midpeninsula T-groups that developed the confrontational personal interaction in group sessions.”