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" Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. "

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" 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. "

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" Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.' "

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" Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate. "

" Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there. "

" I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. "