"I think there's almost a belligerence - people are frustrated with their manufactured environment. We tend to assume the problem is with us, and not with the products we're trying to use. In other words, when our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.""
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Jonathan Ive, speaking about the iPhone upon its introduction, in "TIME Magazine" (January 2007)
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