David Pogue quotes

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world? (David Pogue)
The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!
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I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.
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An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.
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A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.
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The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.
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For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, "Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”.
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People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.
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For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.
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My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.
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My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years. (David Pogue)
Five billion dollars a year spent on ringtones? What the?
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I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.
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Incredibly, Apple has persuaded Disney, which owns ABC, to make available all episodes of five TV series, including "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "That's So Raven." Each show costs $1.99 - an easy impulse buy if you missed an episode. They play back beautifully, with no network logo in the corner, no yearlong wait for the DVD, and no commercials. (One 43-minute "hour" of TV takes 12 minutes to download with my cable modem, and about two minutes to transfer to the iPod over its U.S.B. 2.0 cable.) ...That Mr. Jobs persuaded Disney to dip its pinky toe into these waters is an impressive development - and a very promising sign.
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You're witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone.
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