“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.”

— Charles Eames

Source: Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century. 1998, p. 90: Also cited in: AA Files: Annals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Nr. 31-32 (1996). p. 111

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