John Gruber Quotes

I think Apple Watch might be a tougher sell to current watch wearers than non-watch wearers. Non-watch wearers have an open wrist, and if they cared about the glance-able convenience of an always-visible watch dial, they would be wearing a traditional watch already.

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Think
  • Financial

• Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Question
  • Christian
  • Start

• Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Goal
  • Conversation

• I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • You
  • Tomorrow
  • I Can

• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Control
  • Failure
  • Fault

• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Mad
  • Name

• We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Women
  • Love

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I have never gotten my nails done.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Done
  • Never
  • Nails

• Happiness is very simple and minimal.

  

  Tablo
  • Simple
  • Happiness
  • Very

• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Development
  • Weapons
  • Steps

• I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Want
  • Day
  • Everyone

• There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Think
  • Song
  • Master

• I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • College
  • Really
  • Singer

• 'If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town...'

  

  Banksy
  • Life

• A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Up
  • Painting

• There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Power
  • Past
  • Earth

• All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Up
  • Dance

• Personally, I prefer the dark side.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Dark

• I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Cutting

• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Band
  • Face

• I don't like allegories.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Like

• I think Apple Watch might be a tougher sell to current watch wearers than non-watch wearers. Non-watch wearers have an open wrist, and if they cared about the glance-able convenience of an always-visible watch dial, they would be wearing a traditional watch already.

  

  John Gruber