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John Gruber Biography

John Gruber (born 1973) is a writer, blog publisher, UI designer, and the inventor of the Markdown publishing format. Gruber is from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area. He received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Drexel University, then worked for Bare Bones Software (2000–02) and Joyent (2005–06). Since 2002, he has written and produced Daring Fireball, a technology-focused blog. He hosts a related podcast called The Talk Show. In early 2013, Gruber, Brent Simmons, and Dave Wiskus founded software development firm Q Branch to develop the Vesper notes app for iOS. The venture was not successful, and Q Branch has since shut down.

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The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

Approach, Creative, Design, Level, Quality, Taste

Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.

Ideas, Path, Strong, Success, Wisdom

Here's how Apple does marketing in a nutshell: Make a great product, then let people know about it. That's it. Neither aspect of that is easy, but the important thing is it has to happen in that order. It all starts with a great product.

Apples, Aspect, Order, People, Starts

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.

Apps, Clients, Internet, People, Pundits, Understand

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.

Cameras, Kind, Lenses, Quality, Two

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

Art, Decision, Decisions, Making Decisions, Simply

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

Force, Page, Pages, Saying, Views, Years

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.

Artist, Athlete, Bat, Difficult, Organization, Way

People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos.

People, Touch, Trade, Willing, Zereos

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.

Away, Build, Growing, Persistence, Shortcuts

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.

Iphone, Mac, Obviates, Phone, Phones, Typewriters

Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer.

Answer, Answers, Computer, Display, Face, Faces