219 Quotes by Jonathan Ive

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    Our goal isn't to make money. Our goal absolutely at Apple is not to make money. This may sound a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal, and what gets us excited, is to try to make great products.

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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.

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    It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

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    We knew that iMac was fast; we didn't need to make it ugly.

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    Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

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    The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

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    Successful collaboration, in your mind, could be that your opinion is the most valuable and becomes the prevailing sort of direction. That's not collaborating.

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    We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making.

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    When we started work on the iPhone, the motivation there was we all pretty much couldn't stand our phones, and we wanted a better phone.

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