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The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
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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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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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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When you're younger, think less and do more when you're older, do less and think more.
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Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
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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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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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If you have no fear, no one has power over you.
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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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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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Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
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People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.
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