The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines. . . the comfort and the measurements of its environment. . . the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.
We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little andornot calculations. We're hacking into the universe.
Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype.
You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?
Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.