John Gruber Quotes

• Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

  John Gruber

  Art, Decision, Making Decisions

  "The Auteur vs. the Committee" by Randall Steoss, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2011.

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• Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.

  John Gruber

  Wisdom, Strong, Ideas

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• Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.

  John Gruber

  Athlete, Artist, Organization

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• 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.

  John Gruber

  Iphone, Phones, Typewriters

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• The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

  John Gruber

  Design, Creative, Quality

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• 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.

  John Gruber

  Order, Apples, People

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• I've been saying for years that page view-based advertising is a corrupting force.

  John Gruber

  Views, Years, Pages

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• People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos.

  John Gruber

  People, Trade, Willing

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• 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

  People, Clients, Internet

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• Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer.

  John Gruber

  Answers, Faces, Computer

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• 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.

  John Gruber

  Two, Quality, Cameras

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• 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.

  John Gruber

  Persistence, Growing, Shortcuts

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