Quotes About Functionality

Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

The path of evolution depends on the type of interface: additions to an API are acceptable, while removing functionality is not. In SPIs removals are allowed, while additions are not.

It's always good to motivate migration by means of some kind of bonus. For example, offer functionality in the new API that cannot be achieved in the old version.

Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.

But we're just as proud of what our products don't do as we are of what they do. We design them to be simple because we believe most software is too complex: too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion.

The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

Shaker pieces were not to show off. One was not to waste energy to decorate.

Clothes are an amazing tool. They are an amazing way to hide a multitude of sins; they're an amazing way to be creative. Clothes can do so many things. But at the end of the day, if they don't serve you, it's just a waste of time. Then it is frivolous.

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

I don't know how we can compare the old watches we know with the functionality and the capability of the Apple Watch.

Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

I play basketball. I need a jersey and I need some shorts that I feel comfortable in. I'm trying to hoop, not go to a fashion show on the court.

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

Cross-body bags are my favorite, because if something isn't across my body or in a pocket, I'll put it down and forget it forever.

JanSport thinks about everything that a person in the 21st century would need, and then creates a pocket for it.

I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

I'm big into multifunctional clothing.

Men like clothes they can wear to work and afterwards. They don't want things to be complicated.