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."

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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."" in the context of "Jonathan Ive, speaking about the iPhone upon its introduction, in "TIME Magazine" (January 2007)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.