18 Quotes by Leander Kahney

It's huge news for the Mac community. It's a real bombshell. Hell has frozen over, black is white, two plus two equals five, the whole fabric of the universe has been ripped open.

In New York, researchers have created a working prototype of an amazing touch-screen interface for a computer that, unlike most touch screens, supports multiple touch points -- or multiple people. Running on OS X, the interface is reminiscent of Steven Spielberg's fictional, gesture-based UI in Minority Report -- but much cooler.

Someone started taking notes, Steve said, ‘You don’t need to takes notes. If it’s important, you’ll remember it’.

When you are a designer, you have to be able to convey your ideas to people who are not designers; perhaps they are financing you or going to do the production, and you have to be able to turn them on to the product and its feasibility.

When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,’ Jony said.

Jony, too, would become a master of the approach, agreeing with Jobs’s mantra: ‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

We are not interested in design statements. We do everything we can to simplify design.

The thing is, it’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

The late eighties was a good vintage. ID was not yet fashionable so a lot of people were doing it for the right reasons – to make good design, not become stars.