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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
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John Maeda
Age: 59
Born: 1966
Born: January 1
Computer Scientist
Designer
Graphic Designer
University Teacher
Seattle
Washington
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Either
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I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
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Design provides solutions, art asks questions.
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Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
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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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When you're younger, think less and do more when you're older, do less and think more.
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If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.
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If you have no fear, no one has power over you.
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Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.
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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.
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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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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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Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
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Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
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The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
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