John Maeda Quotes

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

I am thinking about something much more important than bombs. I am thinking about computers.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.

I'm a tech-head. I've been a tech-head since '84, man.

I had never seen a computer when I went to college.

I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.

I'm pretty into computers. I used to be a lot more into it when I was younger.

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.

I know nothing about technology.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.