List of John Maeda Quotes

I Don't Really Love Computers.

The Artist Needs To Understand The Truth That Lies At The Bottom Of An Enigma.

Videogames Are Indeed Design: They're Sophisticated Virtual Machines That Echo The Mechanical Systems Inside Cars.

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 Of The People That Made The Spoon And The Dishes And The Vacuum Cleaner Didn't Have Microprocessors And Stuff. You Could Do A Good Design Back Then.

As A Genre, Videogames Take Our Minds On Journeys, And We Can Control And Experience Them Much More Interactively Than Passively - Especially When They Are Well-designed.

I Don't Like Creating Software Anymore. It's Too Exact. It's Like Karate; There's No Room For Error.

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 Good At Math.

Design Provides Solutions, Art Asks Questions.

Creativity's About Ownership.

Museums Are Important. Design And Art Schools Are Important Because They Show How It Should Be Done At The Highest Level Of Quality. Once People Are Exposed To Quality, They Recognize It Right Away And They Appreciate It. People's Tastes Are Changed By Exposure To Quality. Unless They Can See It They Can't Want It. That's The Brilliance Of Apple - They Provide Quality In Design.

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 Do You Build The Ethos Of Art And Design Into The Academy Of Science.

I Have A Confession: I'm Not A Man Of Simplicity. I Spent My Entire Early Career Making Complex Stuff. Lots Of Complex Stuff.

Think Of The Computer As A Spiritual Space For Thinking.

Apple Products Aren't Simple Technologies By Any Stretch, But There Is A Beautiful Simplicity To Them.

Research Universities Need Excellent Means To Communicate And Express Their Results To Regular People.

Art Is A Conduit Toward Human Needs And Perception.

With Regard To What Is Designed Really Well, I Think People Are The Best-designed Objects In The World. Seriously.

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 Fabricate Our Next Meal And Also Our Ride There.

Teaching Is The Rare Profession Where The Customer Isn't Always Right And Needs To Be Told So Appropriately.

Corporations Today, By Their Razor Sharp Focus On The 'bottom Line' And Quarterly Earnings, Have Lost Their Ability To Innovate.

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 Doing It For Me. Things That I Can't Do Myself, My Graduate Students Should Be Doing.

There Is A Construct In Computer Programming Called 'the Infinite Loop' Which Enables A Computer To Do What No Other Physical Machine Can Do - To Operate In Perpetuity Without Tiring. In The Same Way It Doesn't Know Exhaustion, It Doesn't Know When It's Wrong And It Can Keep Doing The Wrong Thing Over And Over Without Tiring.

The Best Scientists That I've Met Are Those That Are Humanists And Scientists At The Same Time.

The Difference Between Closing Or Opening Your Eyes Is The Choice Between The Imagined Vs Real. Blinking Is Only Human.