“I went to my friend’s house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I’m in love.” — Ace Frehley     “I went to my friend’s house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I’m in love.” — Ace Frehley   “I’ve never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it’s a good experience, and you can do it for 20…

Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center – against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called ‘timelessness’ and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it. -Ada Louise Huxtable   It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the…

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. -Ada Lovelace   That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show. -Ada Lovelace   I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature. -Ada Lovelace   I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind…