Koolhaas Lagos Quotes

#1. We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way to Harvard. She supported an unbelievable escape of her children into education. In that sense it was a city completed pixillated, and every pixel contained amazing stories.

Rem Koolhaas

#2. A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.

Seth Godin

#3. Diversity is wisdom.

Sheila Renee Parker

#4. Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.

Rem Koolhaas

#5. Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#6. That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

Rem Koolhaas

#7. I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

Steve McNair

#8. I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.

Phil Keoghan

#9. I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.

Ed Belfour

#10. In today's world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#11. Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.

Rem Koolhaas

#12. Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.

Rem Koolhaas