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John Maeda
American
Designer
Born:
1966
Art
Design
Good
People
World
You
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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.
John Maeda
Wrong Thing
Programming
Other
Way
Machine
Physical
Construct
Computer
Wrong
Over
Know
Operate
Loop
Without
Enables
Exhaustion
Doing
Perpetuity
Same
Infinite
Tiring
Which
Keep
Thing
Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.
John Maeda
Today
Focus
Lost
Innovate
Earnings
Corporations
Ability
Bottom
Bottom Line
Sharp
Razor
Line
Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.
John Maeda
Good
You
Communicate
Design
Unless
Computer
Layout
Look
Well
Very
Trained
Anyone
Create
Page
Program
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
John Maeda
Business
Change
People
World
Value
Way
See
How
Artists
With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.
John Maeda
People
World
Seriously
Think
Objects
Well
Regard
Really
Designed
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.
John Maeda
Experience
Innovation
Way
Kinds
Some
Seem
Directly
Indirectly
New
Come
Sciences
Equations
Always
Chemicals
Linked
Forget
Human
Just
Either
Place
Human Experience
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.
John Maeda
People
Our
Possibilities
Horizon
Divergent
Economy
Execute
Built
Expand
Get
Done
Artists
Them
Things
Designers
Thinkers
The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.
John Maeda
Time
Best
Met
Those
Scientists
Same
Same Time
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.'
John Maeda
Art
Good
Parents
Say
Though
John
Only
Hear
Math
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Found
Things
Two
I don't really love computers.
John Maeda
Love
Computers
Really
Creativity's about ownership.
John Maeda
Creativity
Ownership
About
Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.
John Maeda
Beautiful
Simple
Simplicity
Any
Them
Products
Apple
Technologies
Stretch
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
John Maeda
Art
Ride
World
Money
Matter
Loudest
Meal
Our
Everything
Fabricate
About
Computers
Know
Also
Talks
Robots
Still
Human
Where
Human Beings
Us
Next
Beings
Shows
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
John Maeda
Car
Design
Virtual
Indeed
Machines
Systems
Inside
Echo
Sophisticated
Videogames
Mechanical
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