Leander Kahney Quotes

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

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people ... Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

When it came to showing models to Steve Jobs, we would select models that we ourselves thought were good,' said Satzger.

He was completely interested in humanizing technology.

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

The lead and his two deputies will also pore through the pages trying to find ways to integrate new ideas.

He was a really energetic person and desperately keen for his son to succeed. He was simply a caring father who tried to make sure that Jony had all the best opportunities to get on as a designer.

We have something really exciting for you today, said Steve Jobs on October, 23, 2001, at a special press event on Apple's campus. Jobs had asked only a few dozen journalists to a product unveiling.

He hated computers having names like ZX75 and numbers of megabytes. He hated technology as it was in the 1990s.

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.