99 Quotes by John Maeda

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

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.

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.

How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

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.

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

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

Knowledge makes everything simpler.