Jonathan Ive Quotes

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I enjoy building more than managing.

All I've ever wanted to do is design and make; it's what I love doing.

I love creating things. I love making things.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

I like building.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

I do not write, I build.

I like to build things. I like to do things.

I just wondered how things were put together.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

I've always loved creating things with my hands.

I prefer making stuff to talking about how I made the stuff.

I enjoy making and creating things.

I just like building stuff.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.