John Maeda Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Creativity's about ownership.”

“Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.”

“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.”

“The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.”

“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.”

“Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.”

“Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.”

“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.”

“A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.”