Sagmeister Says

Nice quote I found in Stefan Sagmeister's Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far: According to the previously mentioned experts, happiness has been designed by evolution as a compass, as a tool to show us the way. We are made to pursue the things that make us happy, like fat and sugar and warmth and sex, in order to help us stay alive as individuals and as a species. Permanent happiness, however, is not achievable—if we were able to reach a state of prolonged happiness, it simply would not work as a compass anymore, and we would wind up lying about, doing nothing, and getting fat. Evolution designed us to seek happiness but has no interest in our achieving it over a sustained period of time. Although I take issue with the idea of evolution designing anything it's still a good quote. And not that I'm given to quoting a large number of things. Anyway, I thought that it was nice.