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“Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.”

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

“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.”

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

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

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”