In This World of Wonders Quotes

“property, they said. If the budget had to be doubled, so be it. Let’s go forward, trusting that the money will come in. We notified the architect of the council’s decision. Within a month or so, he called to say that he had some tentative designs to show us. The designs turned out to be conventional, uninspired. So we offered suggestions. A month or so later, we received a call saying that a new set of designs was ready; but these, too, were uninspired. It was evident what was going on: though our budget had been doubled, it was still low, and the low budget, rather than challenging him to”
― Nicholas Wolterstorff, In This World of Wonders: Memoir of a Life in Learning