From that perspective, it's closed,

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

As I open myself to questions being posed by those from other systems, I gain perspective on how many of my beliefs are system based.

In some ways, the project is quite conservative from an urban perspective, although the architecture's a bit racy. London is basically made of houses. Seventy percent of buildings in London are houses. Houses are what create the public space in the city - streets, squares etc. So when I started, I thought: We're not designing a housing scheme, we're designing a piece of the city, and that should be the starting point for many housing schemes.

All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

People are going to have to go to extreme measures to get an Xbox 360, ... From Microsoft's perspective, they would have liked to get out more units.