If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things. John Maeda More Quotes by John Maeda More Quotes From John Maeda I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. John Maeda creatingerrorsrooms 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. John Maeda growing-upmathart Communication in every which way is everything for the leader. John Maeda designcommunicationleader Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions. John Maeda designtechnologyart The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human. John Maeda differenceseyereal 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 just aesthetics, but economics and usage. John Maeda impactdesignroles Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately. John Maeda designteachingneeds The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. John Maeda scientistmets Creativity's about ownership. John Maeda ownershipcreativity Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. John Maeda razorslinesfocus Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business. John Maeda artistpeopleworld 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. John Maeda graduatesdesignstudents 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. John Maeda growing-updesignpeople 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. John Maeda machinescomputerway Design provides solutions, art asks questions. John Maeda solutionsdesignart Knowledge makes everything simpler. John Maeda 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. John Maeda genrejourneymind Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. John Maeda fewerorganization 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. John Maeda matterworldart With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously. John Maeda peopleworldthinking
