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"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it."

Steve Jobs on Design

More quotes about Design

  • "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

    Steve Jobs on Design

  • "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

    Walt Disney on Design

  • "The artist in me cries out for design."

    Robert Frost on Design

  • "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Design

  • "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

    Erma Bombeck on Design

More quotes by Steve Jobs

  • "We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac."

  • "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

  • "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

  • "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

  • "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."

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