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" I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting. "
Jonathan Ive
Left
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Visiting
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" If doing anything new, you're very used to having insurmountable obstacles. "
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" 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. "
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" Good is the enemy of great. "
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" 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. "
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" I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design. "
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Ever
Early
" When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely. "
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Interpret
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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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Computers
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" All I've ever wanted to do is design and make; it's what I love doing. "
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Wanted
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" When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy. "
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Know
Work
Time
" I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care. "
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I Think
Care
Think
" There are some shocking cars on the road. "
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Road
Shocking
" Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're successful and we make good products, that people will like them. And we trust that if people like them, they'll buy them. And we figured out the operation and we're effective. We know what we're doing, so we'll make money, but it's a consequence. "
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Good
Best
Money
" 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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Phone
Motivation
Work
" 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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Think
Argument
Remember
" We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda. "
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Pink
Easy
Better
" I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making. "
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Wonderful
Tradition
I Am
" When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture. "
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Deep
Successful
Made
" 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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Remember
Business
Apple
" Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time. "
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Design
Going
Inevitable
" 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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Good
Bring
Goal
" There's no other product that changes function like the computer. "
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Product
Function
Other
" I feel that it's lovely when, as a user, you're not aware of the complexity. "
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I Feel
You
Feel
" 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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" I'm always focussed on the actual work, and I think that's a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make. "
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Speech
Work
Care
" I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next. "
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Good
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" It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage. "
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" What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable. "
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Process
Creative
Day
" One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together. "
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Learning
Team
Together
" So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself. "
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Making
Background
Doing