Quotes from Norman Foster

I think you never stop learning.

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don't.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect

If the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet, and beyond the planet