John Maeda Quotes

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

Is the human race a universal constructor?

In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.