Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.