219 Quotes by Jonathan Ive

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

The benefit of hindsight is we only really talk about those things that did work out.

I think it's important that we learn how to draw and to make something and to do it directly. To understand the properties you're working with by manipulating them and transforming them yourself.

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?

I always like when you start to use something with a little less reverence. You start to use it a little carelessly, and with a little less thought, because then, I think, you're using it very naturally.

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.