John Maeda Quotes

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I just want to do cool stuff.

I have to go places beyond music.

I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

It's the best thing, when you are in a creative space, discovering something and being enamored with it and excited by it.

What motivates us is always new music.

I like creation even if it is a bit difficult. It is always very exciting.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.