All John Maeda Quotes
- Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them. Any
- I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff. Career
- My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not… Aesthetics
- All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them. All
- I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All… All
- In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how… 80s
- Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and… Anyone
- Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business. Artist
- Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. Ability
- Creativity's about ownership. Creativity
- Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is… Art
- I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. Anymore
- I don't really love computers. Computer
- Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important. Daily
- Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people. Communicate
- The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma. Artist
- The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. Best
- Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. Car
- With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously. Best
- Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots… Art
- As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they… Control
- Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon… Artist
- There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do -… Called
- Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. Adding
- Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind,… All