219 Quotes by Jonathan Ive

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

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    It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.

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    There was a 'Wired' cover that had a big Apple logo with a crown of barbed wire as thorns, and underneath it just said, 'Pray.' I remember this because of how upsetting it was. Basically saying either it's going to just go out of business or be bought.

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    Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

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    I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

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    Manufactured objects testify to who made them; they describe values.

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    What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

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    It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.

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    Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.

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