John Maeda

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.

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

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.