John Maeda: Simplicity patterns

[portfolioclub]

I was thinking about this topic the other day. Glad to find a TEDtalk on it.

[insomniacgrace]

Indeed, simplicity, a good way to start. Amazing talk. Ideas being shared are so great. Speaker seemed to entertained well his audience, not letting them be bored.

[baconator27]

thank you for increasing the evergrowing population problem by having 5 children. Is that simple enough for you?

Mr. Welch sent me here.

[baconator27]

thank you for increasing the evergrowing population by having 5 children. Is that simple enough for you.

[delo01]

That was great.

[deepreverb]

smart man w/ clever points, but as a talk i didn't find it very focused or compelling. disappointedly, i must say that it was kind of a tease.

i imagine his books have more depth.

[halcyonyear]

Does anyone else feel like he gets cut off at the end?

[kellnergram]

Ted people - listeners and talkers - want to get going right away. They are busy to the point kind of guy. What is this fellow on about? I can't believe he doesn't know anything, MIT doesn't usually hire fools, but he sure don't get it across. One of the poor TED lectures I've seen

[Folliguesooter]

i think it is a very good comparison between simple&complex and how to define it. And pointed out things that we cant easyly see or dont care when we see.

[TheWiseCommenter]

MIT doesn't usually hire fools? Let me correct you sir, MIT doesn't hire fools.

Do you work for MIT? No. And actually your English is quite poor. Maybe you should listen more and talk less.

[kellnergram]

Every university has duds. It's an inevitable part of trying to determine who really has something to say and is making a contribtuion to knowledge, and who is simply favoured or is a flavour of this or that doctrine. To think that MIT isn't susceptible to making mistakes is to put it on an ivory tower pedestal. If you happen to disagree with my assessment, so be it, but compare yours to the more salient on point disagreement of folliguesooter. Is my english satisfactorily better this time?

[leeroynaggins]

You didn't get the point of the lecture?

It was all about him telling you how brilliant, cool, quirky and special he is.

I thought that was quite clear.

Yay Maeda-san!

[waitingastar]

just because you dont use your head, doesnt mean hes dumb.

have tried think abstractly?

[kellnergram]

Well, at least I can write proper English.

[SkyWithBlue]

Simple is great. Simple but not stupid

[hardercorky]

ok we get it, youre smart and talented and have a lot of money and dont have to work so you make stupid things like charts and scanning fries.

[1supa1]

the problem is in definition of complexity and simplicity and their relationship. I would say that even complex ideas are actually very simple from a certain point of view. One does not need to treat these as opposites.

[ekimbell]

love for the Lord thy God is the greatest concept of simplicity man can know. understanding that we are small and weak seems more noticeable in small children than adults who know everything there is to know about everything. Jesus was simple, henry david thoreau was simple. love is the most powerful vibration.

[itsmeamario]

is this going somewhere?...

[claytongault]

15 minutes of a crackpot rambling...

[thisisapreviewvideo]

this dude is a genius

[thisisapreviewvideo]

i think we love complexity from a simple approach :)

[jakemachina]

Not a focused talk at all... kinda feels like it's not a TED talk in a way.

[MarlinWatling]

"in my life I have discovered that vacation is one of the most important skills for any kind of overachiever..." - haha, very funny.

[juliuscheeser]

why dont they realise the intro is off putting and completely unnceccesary? Get the car sponsor to do better music. it just makes them hateful not memorable.

[MrFrankBullitt]

Pretty cool.

[druz99]

Very entertaining. Brilliant man.

[mattown]

Yawn

[DrDittle]

OMG he's soo not interesting.  Half-way but I'll stick it out.

[deathdotpwns]

the bmw at the end killed it :|

[Driven000009]

I take it you must be new to TED if you haven't learned to skip the intro and stop it before the BMW ad comes up...

[sexdrugsRnR]

haha true

[dxhaloxc]

lol "its not very simple"

[OuterDrake007]

these ideals doesn't seem to relate to the common man.

[HollowMoonStudios]

that was cool, but i kept waiting for him to get to something of substance - as in, how his findings have been used to better our world - and it never came. :/

[ChrisSketch]

Not groundbreaking like some TED talks, but still very enjoyable.

[thejobloshow]

Procrastination is a horrible thing.

[watzupdawg]

The ultimate result of simplicity will be to understand how the brain works. In theoretical neuroscience the basis of new computing models is simplicity.

[kurtilein3]

i dont like this one. there have been amazing ted-talks, but this is not one of them. somehow the quality of TED appears to be going down during the last weeks.

[reivilo]

the key to genius to to make the complex simple, but not any simpler.

-albert einstien

[beefdlo]

i think you'll agree, this is win.