It is how we choose what we do, and how we approach it, that will determine whether the sum of our days adds up to a formless blur, or to something resembling a work of art.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.