The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.
If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.
You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.
Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.
Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.
