99 Quotes by John Maeda

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.

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

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.

The best scientists that I’ve met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

Knowledge is comfort, and comfort lies at the heart of simplicity.

Apple products aren’t simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

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

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn’t always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

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.