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. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
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. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
What I think is remarkable is the force of habit and the fact that while we can have a practice for doing something that has been repetitive and established over many, many years, it doesn’t actually mean there’s any virtue to doing it that way at all. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
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. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
That’s just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
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. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
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. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time. Jonathan Ive Read Quote
