It is neither an accident nor a disaster that humanity is now, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species. More
"Urban success is speeded by the flow of ideas, and in denser areas it's as if ideas are in the air. People learn in cities, but a vision of a dense bohemian cultural arts area isn't necessarily the magic bullet."
- Edward Glaeser
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
