26 Quotes by John Gruber

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

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.

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

Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.

The iPhone was the first phone that brought what we used to think of as 'desktop quality' software to a handheld platform: software where you just say, 'Wow, that's a great user experience,' not merely, 'Wow, that's a great user experience for a handheld.'

I went to Drexel University, majored in computer science. Drexel has a great program - they call it co-op - but its, like, mandatory to graduate to do internships. I loved it because it helped me figure out very quickly that I didn't really want to be a programmer.

I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.

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

There are a lot of people I dislike in the world. I mean, a lot. I don't follow any of them on Twitter.