John Maeda Quotes

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

I've made a career of being precise.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

The smallest errors are always the best.

It is exactness I aim at, and would not have the least mistake, if possible, pass to the world. If I have unhappily fallen into any, it is through inadvertency only

I am a precise person in everything I do.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

I've always been very attentive to detail. It's a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

There's no detail too small for me.

Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

I'm a perfectionist about being on time.

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked.