"Jim Olson", FAIA is the founding principal of the Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig Architects. He is best known for residential design, often for art collectors, though his designs have also included museums, commercial spaces and places of worship. In 2006, William Stout Publishers released Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection and Residence. His honors include the 2007 Seattle AIA Medal of Honor, selection as the 1999 Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, and his induction in 1990 as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is an honorary trustee to the Seattle Art Museum, and a founding trustee of Artist Trust, and Center on Contemporary Art, both in Seattle. Olson received a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Washington.

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It makes the pieces of the pie much smaller for the fishermen that don't travel.

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I wouldn't wish this on anybody. It's a tough feeling. ... A lot of stuff came down in a hurry. It went really fast once it started going.

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I don't want to sound arrogant, but why would we? They don't have the market share or technology we need. Scale is No. 1 on our dance card. Where do you get scale? You go to the big players with alliances.

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Those eggs have been sitting in the high marsh for as long as two years waiting for something like this.

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Toyota just saves and saves in a million little ways and then uses that money as a club against its competitors.

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None of us have enough engineers to do what we need to do. You get scale on the engineering level by doing alliances and you get scale on the costs.

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Add water, wait seven days and cover up. Because they're coming to town hungry, by the millions.

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