Top 16 John Gruber Quotes
#1. People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos.
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#2. Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer.
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#3. It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.
George Clooney
#4. The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
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#5. Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art
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#6. What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.
James Surowiecki
#7. The art of speaking," it was later said, "depends on much effort, continual study, varied kinds of exercise, long experience, profound wisdom, and unfailing strategic sense.
Stacy Schiff
#8. The only people who don't love apps are pundits who don't understand that apps aren't really in opposition to the open Internet. They're just superior clients to open Internet services.
John Gruber
#9. Here's how Apple does marketing in a nutshell: Make a great product, then let people know about it. That's it. Neither aspect of that is easy, but the important thing is it has to happen in that order. It all starts with a great product.
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#10. I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?'
I said not particularly.
Harper Lee
#11. Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.
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#12. I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.
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#13. I've been saying for years that page view-based advertising is a corrupting force.
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#14. You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.
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#15. The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.
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