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Creativity's about ownership.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.

Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'

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

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

I don't really love computers.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

Knowledge is comfort, and comfort lies at the heart of simplicity.

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

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

Work is easier when its just work; it's much harder when you actually care.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception,

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

Knowledge makes everything simpler.

Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

I've come to realize, however, that while technology may make it more convenient to communicate, it doesn't improve our ability to get a point across.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.