America was not built on fear. America was built on courage on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me and my website has built up a community of readers which is a lot of fun.

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams so I built it myself.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us and those we do business with.

The whole business is built on ego vanity self-satisfaction and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

One I built when I was a kid and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

We think the Mac will sell zillions but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

When museums are built these days architects directors and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties eat dinner wine-and-dine donors. Sure these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open tall-ceilinged super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures should the need arise. It has arisen.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.

Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

As his partner on this amazing journey I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.