John Gruber Quotes

It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.

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• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Something
  • Pressure

• The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Summer
  • First
  • Africa

• I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • You
  • Jazz
  • Blues

• What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Different
  • American

• I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

  

  Edmund White
  • Injustice
  • Homosexuality

• R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Soul

• The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia

• I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• 'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexuality, it's not about identity. It's about all these different layers, because they are all a part of the character.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Different
  • Character
  • Identity

• Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Great
  • Mother

• When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Baseball
  • Either
  • Cemetery

• A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better.

  

  Wale
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Myself

• It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• You can’t change what you don’t understand.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Night

• Just keep following my tears, and the brook will take you in.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Tears

• Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Live
  • Family
  • Support

• The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

  

  Jeff Hawkins

• I worked with a couple of chocolate Labradors, which were a lot of fun. Very excitable. They're cute.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Fun
  • Couple
  • Cute

• Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'.

  

  Alistair Horne
  • Men
  • Past
  • Knowledge

• After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

  

  John Polkinghorne
  • Life
  • Universe

• It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.

  

  John Gruber