If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.
Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you’re trained in design, it won’t look very good and it won’t communicate very well.
Apple products aren’t simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.
In the ’70s and ’80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.
Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.
We seem to forget that innovation doesn’t just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.
No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley.
If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.
I don’t like creating software anymore. It’s too exact. It’s like karate; there’s no room for error.
As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively – especially when they are well-designed.
Knowledge makes everything simpler.
Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.
How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don’t want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.
Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn’t know how to do those things by doing it for me. Things that I can’t do myself, my graduate students should be doing.
Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn’t always right and needs to be told so appropriately.
All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they’re alive.
When you’re younger, think less and do more; when you’re older, do less and think more.