From "Creative Places: A Dean's Welcome" by Peter Salovey

"These and other work environments fostered spontaneity, collegiality, intellectual intensity, and most importantly, the opportunity for the unfettered exchange of insights and ideas, some bizarre and others amazing. The curators of the Centennial Exposition unabashedly declared, 'The creative process is extremely dependent upon the individual's surroundings.' The point is that whatever brilliance we have been able to attain, is in part a function of the environments in which we find ourselves."