brief quotes

I hold no brief for private enterprise.But I have unshakeable faith in individual enterprise.

- C(harles) L(uther) Burton
  A Sense of Urgency: Memoirs of a Canadian Merchant.

  Architects cannot work in a vacuum; unlike other artists theyare totally dependent on a site, a brief and finance.

- Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers
  22nd annualWalter Neurath lecture. Collected in Architecture: a ModernView.

The process of learning is accompanied by alternations of pain and brief quickenings that resemble pain.

-Thornton Niven Wilder
  The Eighth Day.