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.

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing.

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.