John Maeda Quotes

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you're dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you've come down the road quite a ways.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

What applies when we're younger maybe doesn't so much when we get a little bit older.

The older you get, the more you've done.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.