219 Quotes by Jonathan Ive

There are some shocking cars on the road.

Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected.

The iPhone was broadly dismissed. The iPod was broadly dismissed. The iPad was probably more copiously written off as a large iPod.

With a father who is a fabulous craftsman, I was raised with the fundamental belief that it is only when you personally work with a material with your hands, that you come to understand its true nature, its characteristics, its attributes, and I think - very importantly - its potential.

If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles.

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.

Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.