The Inevitable Box

"Can a body of work be built on the basis of one good idea? If so, what makes such an idea? Is the
measure of a good idea how much it renders further ideas unnecessary? When something good is
invented, what reason can there be against applying it until something better comes along? Once
the ideal paradigm is established, we repeat it. Everything unfolds from there; further choices are
self-evident."

Reinier de Graaf
The Inevitable Box