One of the things that defines me personally is a very high respect for creative thinking and to that end I have been fortunate enough to attend TED on two occasions. John Maeda is thoroughly entertaining to me in this presentation on his thoughts on simplicity. TED is an incredible experience of free thought and idea exchange and has been very enriching to me. One caveat to this is that, as Maeda himself makes light of, he is well entrenched in academia and clearly is able to engage in such thinking without having to answer to many conventions...

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/j...mple_life.html