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John Maeda Quotes

American - Designer | 1966 -

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.

Doing Wrong Know Infinite Way Over

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.

People Horizon Possibilities Done

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Together Planning Someone Go Whom

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

Time Best Same Those Met Scientists

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

Truth Artist Understand Bottom Lies

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

Design Inside Mechanical Echo Indeed

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.

Art Money Ride World Computers Know

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

People World Think Seriously Well

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.

Good People Computers Grow Design

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.

Innovation Experience Place New Way

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.

Good Design You Look Create Page

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.

Today Science Art Challenge Design

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