So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.
I think what we all have to do is make this big leap towards renewables. And it has to be a solution where you're actually building the answer; and it has to be built faster than the natural gas industry can build their answer.
It's time to focus all of our efforts on renewables. We will oppose the building of LNG facilities.
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with our bodies. Trans people and feminists should be building natural alliances here.
I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
Usually, when you're taking over a team, you're restructuring, you're tearing it down, you're building it up again.
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product.
Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler.
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.
Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.
Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways.
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.