The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.
Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.
Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years.
It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.
Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.
Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.
Cities are the crucible of civilization.
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.
A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.
