John Maeda Quotes

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

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• The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Start

• I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

  Nas
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• To me, country songs are simple.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Me
  • Simple

• It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Black

• They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion

• I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • People
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Simple
  • Nothing
  • Egg

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • School
  • Feeling

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• I'm looking for all the things that are beneficial in the human genome. Everything that I do is based on a very simple principle: things that are beneficial will spread through populations very quickly.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Simple
  • Will
  • Looking

• This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • World
  • Truth
  • Society

• The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Money
  • Simple
  • Start

• A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Good
  • She
  • Wife

• I felt myself in the presence of something enormously big, as if a small barbarian was desecrating the colossal Zeus of Pheidias with a coal hammer. But I also felt it inhuman, and I hated it, and I clung to that hatred. 'You fear nothing and you believe nothing,' I said. 'Man, you should never have been allowed to live.'

  

  John Buchan
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Fear

• If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Different
  • Experience

• I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Travel

• Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

  

  John Maeda
  • Beautiful
  • Simple
  • Simplicity