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Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
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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Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
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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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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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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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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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Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.
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The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
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If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.
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Design provides solutions, art asks questions.
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As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.
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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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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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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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With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.
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Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.
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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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Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.
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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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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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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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