Jonathan Ive Quotes

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.

The only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.

We want a system that creates the same exact sandwich, very rapidly and very consistently, every single time.

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

Instruments, machines, looms will increasingly supplement the strength and skill of men; will augment at the same time the perfection and the precision of manufactures by lessening both the time and the labor needed to produce them

What was worked out at Ford was the practice of moving the work from one worker to another until it became a complete unit, then arranging the flow of these units at the right time and the right place to a moving final assembly line from which came a finished product.

The man who places a part does not fasten it. The man who puts in the bold does not out on the nut. The man who puts on the nut does not tighten it. Every piece of work in the shop moves. It may move on hooks, on overhead chains …. It may travel on a moving platform or go by gravity.

Craft is everything.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.