"I had a personal attitude, hardly a policy, which was generally agreed to in San Francisco, including the senior designers. No personal credits, just [credit] to the San Francisco office.... I'm sure there would be less confusion if there was a firm-wide policy. Gordon [Bunshaft] has always been identified with his work, as have Walter [Netsch] and Bruce [Graham]. I am unhappy when my name appears, but I do not know what can be done.... I don't think of it as anonymity. I thought of it as appropriate recognition. One would have to go to great pains to be unaware of how many talents and energies share in the creation of a fine building, or of the discrepancy between the truth and the myth kept alive by an obvious cynicism that a building is born full-blown out of a single person's head. To perpetuate that myth, when it takes so many people, so much talent, so much technical expertise, so much dedication and commitment to a professional work ethic of a profession they love, has always bothered me. Always has."

Edward Charles Bassett
(1921-1999)