John Maeda Quotes

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• If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.
• Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.
• When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.
• All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.
• We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the…
• Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
• The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
• Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,
• Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products.…
• What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology…
• Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.
• The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find…
• Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.
• Simplicity and complexity need each other.
• Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things by…
• Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.
• The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.
• Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.
• When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.
• How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we…

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