Beauty binds us to life—that's its evolutionary purpose—and it serves that function very, very well.
Ironically, because you severely reduce the scope of the information you’re taking in, survival mode is dangerous.
Primitive tools created buildings and art that were infinitely more pleasing than what our complex tools can, and have, created.
The order of operation between simplicity and complexity is the most important rule of design.
Social invisibility is a survival strategy; too much visibility is an anthropological suicide note.
Our own brand of hypermodernity increasingly requires us to generate multiple selves,—or refractions of self—multiple social identities as protection from the demolition of our naive and original personas.