Leander Kahney Quotes

#1. The thing is, it's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

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#2. 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.

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

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

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#5. If there's not some sort of friction in a move forward, your step is not as consequential as you'd like to believe it is.

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#6. He was completely interested in humanizing technology.

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#7. The iPhone When we are at these early stages in design . . . often we'll talk about the story for the product - we're talking about perception. We're talking about how you feel about the product, not in a physical sense, but in a perceptual sense. - JONY IVE

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

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

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

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. He was ego-free, which was very rare in the design student world. Most design students had lots of ego and very little talent. Jony was the other way around.

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#14. 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.

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