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“Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.” quote by Jonathan Ive — Download Open image

“Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.”

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

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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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We’re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It’s tempting to think it’s because the people who use them don’t care-just like the people who make them. But what we’ve shown is that people do care. It’s not just about aesthetics. They care about things that are thoughtfully conceived and well made. We make and sell a very, very large number…

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And I said couldn't we be more moderate? And he said why? And I said because I care about the team. And he said, 'No Jony, you're just really vain. You just want people to like you. I'm surprised at you, because I thought you really held the work up as the most important and not how you are perceived…

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The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

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In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still…

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

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I am very aware that I'm the product of growing up in England and the tradition of designing and making, of England industrialising first.

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