At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.