Weekend Quotes and Comments

Three for the weekend

From Elizabeth Diller, Architect in the firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Her husband is Ricardo Scofidio - - they are the only husband and wife team to win a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.

When coming up with the design for the High Line, an urban park on an abandoned section of elevated railroad in New York, architect Elizabeth Diller and her colleagues started with a question: What would failure look like?

I love that - - What would failure look like?

From Patricia Urquiola, the chief designer of Studio Urquiola - - currently working on a Marriott hotel in Barcelona with Ian Schrager, a line of award-winning bath fixtures for Axor, sets for a Monteverdi opera in Spain, and interiors for the fashion fair Pitti Uomo, in Florence.

"To work in sustainability is to work in complexity," says Urquiola her hands wide, imploring understanding. "You don't get all the solutions. It gives you a sense of humility. But we have to take care. We have to give the example. We need to see the right side of the moon."

I love that - - But we have to take care.

From Yuri Milner, CEO of DST, Russian investor in social networking companies - - including a $800 million investment in Facebook.

Milner has been studying Facebook closely for years. He had a theory he has come to call "Zuckerberg's Law": Every 12 to 18 months the amount of information being shared between people on the web doubles. The business implications for this are tremendous. Over time people will bypass more general websites such as Google in favor of sites built atop social networks where they can rely on friends' opinions to figure out where to get the best fall handbag, how to change a smoke detector, or whether to vacation in Istanbul or Rome. "You will pick your network, and the network will filter everything for you," Milner explained.

I love that - - You will pick your network.