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Best Design Quotes by Jonathan Ive
- To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.
- We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.
- There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.
- The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.
- What we don't include is as important as what we do include.
- What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.
- Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.
- Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.
- Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great,
- The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material--the material informs the form,
- There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
- Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.
- The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.
- I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
- I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.
- 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…
- I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.
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- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
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