John Gruber Quotes

I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.

John Gruber

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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

Ferdinand Marcos
- Think
- Revolution
- Matter
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

Samuel Lover
- Man
- Literature
- Pen
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Gary Hamel
- Up
- Time
- World
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
- Work
- Talk
- Irony
All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Ira Sachs
- Films
- Go
- Got
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

Ted Naifeh
- People
- Character
- Girl