"I think it would be pretentious as hell to do it in the style of the (original) building. If you're going to do something like this, you'd better not get cutesy about it. It's like Chartres. They built one tower in early Gothic and later they built another one in flamboyant Gothic."
- Robert Jones, designer of a proposed addition to the Empire State Building, on why the new part of the building was designed in a totally different style.
