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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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Graphic Designer
University Teacher
Seattle
Washington
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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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Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
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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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The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
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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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