John Maeda Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
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“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 sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.”
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“All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.”
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“Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.”
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“Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,”
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“The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.”
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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.”
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“Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.”
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“The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.”
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“Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.”
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“When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“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 of possibilities.”
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“Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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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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“Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.”
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“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.”
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“I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.”
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