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Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.
John Maeda
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John Maeda
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 1
Computer Scientist
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University Teacher
Seattle
Washington
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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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Design provides solutions, art asks questions.
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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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Too little confidence, and you're unable to act too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.
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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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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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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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Simplicity and complexity need each other.
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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.
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With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.
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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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Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.
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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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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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The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
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