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John Maeda (/ˈmaɪdə/) is an American executive, designer, technologist. His work explores the area where business, design, and technology merge to make space for the "humanist technologist." He is Global Head, Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic where he seeks to address the diversity gap in tech by exploring how inclusion can be a key ingredient for success in the technology industry.

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If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

Creative, Creativity, Future, Passion, Successful

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

Teaching, Design, Needs, Customer, Told

What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

Art, Design, Make, Possibilities, Technology, Thinking

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

Simplest, Simplicity, Thoughtful, Way

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

Humanists, Met, Mets, Scientist, Scientists, Time

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

Focus, Razors, Lines, Corporations, Ability

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.

Genre, Journey, Mind, Minds, Passively

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.

Artist, Built, Divergent, Execute, People, Possibilities

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

Actions, Art, Design, Leadership, Possibilities, Technology

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

Knowledge, Everything, Simpler

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

Engineer, Ethos, Silicon, Technologies, Technology, Valleys

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

Beautiful, Simple, Simplicity, Technology

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

Alive, Artist, Motivational, Struggle, Yearn

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

Art, Creativity, Design, Question, Problem

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

Communication, Design, Leader, Way

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Art, Reality, Challenges, Notion, Overcoming

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.

Art, Ethos, Design, Today, Science

Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.

Art, Believe, Diseases, Enjoy Life, Recognized, Useless

When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.

Older, Think, Thinking, Younger

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

Confused, Design, Digital, Importance, Mastering, Skills

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