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Philosophical Quotes by 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.
- It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
- Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.
- So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's…
- That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.
- When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.
- 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 memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.
- 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.
- Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview
- 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…
- Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the…
- We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the…
- Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and…
More Philosophical Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle