John Gruber famous quotes

03-30-2025

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
Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art
-- John Gruber

#Art #Decision #Making Decisions
The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
-- John Gruber

#Design #Creative #Quality
Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer.
-- John Gruber

#Answers #Faces #Computer
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
People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos.
-- John Gruber

#People #Trade #Willing
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
Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.
-- John Gruber

#Strong #Ideas #Path
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
The only people who donâ€™t love apps are pundits who donâ€™t understand that apps arenâ€™t really in opposition to the open Internet. Theyâ€™re just superior clients to open Internet services.
-- John Gruber

#People #Clients #Internet

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