Best Steve Jobs quote I have ever heard

July 31, 2008 by Mark
Filed under: Design, Inspiration, Usability 

“When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple with all these simple solutions, you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem. And your solutions are way too oversimplified, and they don’t work.”

“…Then you get into the problem, and you see it’s really complicated. And you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That’s sort of the middle, and that’s where most people stop, and the solutions tend to work for a while…”

“…But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, underlying principle of the problem, and come up with a beautiful elegant solution that works.”
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—Steve Jobs (1984)

Thank you to Jeff Veen for sharing this quote with us at An Event Apart.

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2 Responses to “Best Steve Jobs quote I have ever heard”

  1. berg on July 31st, 2008 10:17 pm

    snap!

  2. Austin Mansu on August 4th, 2008 10:28 pm

    Shoot me down if you want but one of my favorite quotes is “Complexity is simple”.

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