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Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#clutter #consequence #describing #essentially #just

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#challenging #consequence #designing #developing #incredibly

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#designer #designers #face #i #irritates

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#design #good #i #like #much

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#constitution #country #established #everyone #extend

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. ↗

— Charles Ives

#band #brass #i #kind #mind

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife. ↗

— Charles Ives

#anything #because #certain #done #father

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. ↗

— Charles Ives

#better #curious #definiteness #extravagant #hope

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world. ↗

— Charles Ives

#billion #expression #extent #god #great

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. ↗

— Charles Ives

#author #composer #conceivable #form #formless