Quote by Milton Friedman
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. – Milton Friedman

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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years thered be a shortage of sand. – Milton Friedman

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Government
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So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. – Milton Friedman

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Government
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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design. – Herbert Simon

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If I have a style, I am not aware of it. – Michael Graves

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architecture

My buildings dont speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. – Thom Mayne

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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. – Frank Gehry

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