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

About Steve Jobs

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Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board...

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

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Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

—Milton Glaser

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

—Ivan Chermayeff

To dismiss front-end design as mere 'icing' is to jeopardize the success of any site.

—Curt Cloninger

Luck is the residue of design.

—Branch Rickey

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