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As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on. — Jonathan Ive

When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products. — Jonathan Ive

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds. — Jonathan Ive

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?! — Jonathan Ive

Good is the enemy of great. — Jonathan Ive

The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental. — Jonathan Ive

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer. — Jonathan Ive

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. — Jonathan Ive

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product. — Jonathan Ive

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging. — Jonathan Ive

Simplicity is really hard. — Jonathan Ive

Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include. — Jonathan Ive

We say no to a lot of things so we can invest an incredible amount of care on what we do. — Jonathan Ive

Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard. — Jonathan Ive

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing. — Jonathan Ive

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

There is beauty when something
works and it works intuitively. — Jonathan Ive

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed. — Jonathan Ive

To do something innovative means that you reject reason. — Jonathan Ive

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company. — Jonathan Ive

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works. — Jonathan Ive

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard! — Jonathan Ive

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times. — Jonathan Ive

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. — Jonathan Ive

I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive,' — Robert Brunner

We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people. — Jonathan Ive

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products. — Jonathan Ive

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. — Jonathan Ive

Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview — Jonathan Ive

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt. — Jonathan Ive

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to. — Jonathan Ive

I'm always focussed on the actual work, and I think that's a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make. — Jonathan Ive

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

There are a thousand no's for every yes. — Jonathan Ive

The best ideas start as conversations. — Jonathan Ive

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason. — Jonathan Ive

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made. — Jonathan Ive

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it. — Jonathan Ive

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring. — Jonathan Ive

You learn a lot about vital corporations through non-vital corporations. — Jonathan Ive

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care. — Jonathan Ive

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers. — Jonathan Ive

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end. — Jonathan Ive

I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting. — Jonathan Ive

Titles or organizational structures, that's not the lens through which we see our peers, — Jonathan Ive

The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products. — Jonathan Ive

If something is not good enough, stop doing it. — Jonathan Ive

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. — Jonathan Ive

There's no other product that changes function like the computer. — Jonathan Ive

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material
the material informs the form, — Jonathan Ive

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. — Jonathan Ive

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

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to. — Jonathan Ive

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities. — Jonathan Ive

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

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship. — Jonathan Ive

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one. — Jonathan Ive

I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left. — Jonathan Ive

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is. — Jonathan Ive

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for. — Jonathan Ive

Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable. — Jonathan Ive

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole. — Jonathan Ive

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

It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with. — Jonathan Ive

It feels like each time we are beginning at the beginning, in a really exciting way. — Jonathan Ive

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable. — Jonathan Ive

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work. — Jonathan Ive

A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly. — Jonathan Ive

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design. — Jonathan Ive

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way. — Jonathan Ive