Jonathan Ive quotes - page 2

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring. (Jonathan Ive)
It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.
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Paying attention to what's happened historically actually helps give you some faith that you are going to find a solution. Faith isn't a surrogate for engineering competence, but it can certainly help fuel the belief that you're going to find a solution. And that's important.
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It's not too shabby is it?
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My father was a really good craftsman – he was a silversmith – so I grew up understanding how things were made. That's something that's easy to take for granted, but everything that has been made has been thought about, designed, and I think that growing up with an appreciation of the nature of objects was hugely influential to me.
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I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
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My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.
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If something is not good enough, stop doing it.
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Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.
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A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.
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'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. (Jonathan Ive)
Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.
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At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.
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As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on.
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There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.
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It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.
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There's no other product that changes function like the computer.
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Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.
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People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.
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Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.
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Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end. (Jonathan Ive)
To create something that's genuinely new, you have to start again, and I think with great intent, you disconnect from the past.
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As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.
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One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.
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I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?
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