John Maeda Quotes - Page 2

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• All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

  John Maeda

  Motivational, Struggle, Artist

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• 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 are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

  John Maeda

  What Matters, Cities, Progress

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• One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

  John Maeda

  Art, Reality, Challenges

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.

  John Maeda

  Thinking, Focus, Competition

  Manifesto by John Maeda, www.esquire.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Knowledge makes everything simpler.

  John Maeda

  John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.33, MIT Press

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• 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 it won't communicate very well.

  John Maeda

  Design, Pages, Looks

  "STEM to STEAM: An Interview With RISD’s President, John Maeda". Interview with Darby Roach, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 06, 2017.

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• Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

  John Maeda

  Beautiful, Technology, Simple

  "Why Apple Leads the Way in Design" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2010.

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• Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

  John Maeda

  Design, Nests, Ends

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• Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

  John Maeda

  Spiritual, Thinking, Space

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• No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

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  Technology, Ethos, Valleys

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• 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 Up, People, Design

  "John Maeda Goes Meta On Design". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

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  Organization, Fewer

  John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.12, MIT Press

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• Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

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  Artist, People, World

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• Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.

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  Important, Information, Expanding

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• Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

  John Maeda

  Focus, Razors, Lines

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• 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

  Design, Students, Graduates

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• The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

  John Maeda

  Real, Eye, Differences

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2009

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• Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

  John Maeda

  Communication, Design, Leader

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• Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

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  Mean, People, Research

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• Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

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  Art, Design, Solutions

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• Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

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  Echoes, Car, Design

  "Videogames Do Belong in the Museum of Modern Art" by John Maeda, www.wired.com. December 04, 2012.

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• 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

  Journey, Mind, Genre

  "Videogames Do Belong in the Museum of Modern Art" by John Maeda, www.wired.com. December 04, 2012.

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• The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

  John Maeda

  Scientist, Mets

  "John Maeda: Innovation is born when art meets science". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• 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

  Machines, Way, Computer

  "Watson Is No Match for Humanity" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2011.

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• With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

  John Maeda

  Thinking, People, World

  "John Maeda Goes Meta On Design". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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