Jonathan Ive Quotes

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• It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

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  Philosophical, Difficult And Easy, Different

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• There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

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  Ideas, Design, Trying

  "Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn't simple" by Shane Richmond, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 23, 2012.

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• Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

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  Kindness, Business, Comeback

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• The best ideas start as conversations.

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  Ideas, Design, Conversation

  "DM25 What Next for Design? with Jonathan Ive". Interview with Deyan Sudjic, designmuseum.org. November 12, 2014.

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• There is beauty when something
  works and it works intuitively.

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  Design

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• It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

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  Life, Faithful, Precious Things

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• I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

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  Philosophical, Thinking, Order

  iOS 7 product video, shown at WWDC, 2013.

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• To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

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  Mean, Reason, Innovative

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• Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

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  Design, Enemy, Really Great

  "Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money" by Olivia Solon, www.wired.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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• Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

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  Simplicity, Absence, Clutter

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• There are a thousand no's for every yes.

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  Thousand

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• If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

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  Missing, Trying, Possibility

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• The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability

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  Important, Care, Ability

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• We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

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  People, Trying, Problem

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• You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

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  Philosophical, Order, Essence

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• It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

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  Design, Trying, Easy

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• People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

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  People, Design, Authorship

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• A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

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  Beautiful, Ugly, Wells

  "Jonathan Ive Shares Three Lessons He Learned From Steve Jobs", www.vanityfair.com. October 9, 2014.

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• When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

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  Creativity, Ability, Working It

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• Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

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  Design, Different, Easy

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• I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

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  Thinking, People, Care

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• Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

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  Apples, Making Money, Reason

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• Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

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  Simplicity, Design, Purpose

  "The Chasm of Dissonance: Explaining the 'dis-connects' that seem to haunt our world (Including the ones named Trump and Clinton)" by Michael Lissack, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2016.

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• The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

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  Design, Form, Acknowledge

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• We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.

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  People, Design, Products

  "Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core". Interview With Shane Richmond, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 23, 2012.

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