David Pogue Quotes

#1. If you really want to be totally accurate about it, the day that really changed Abby's life wasn't the day she discovered her power.
It was the day Ben sang to her in the Telekinesis lab.

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#2. If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

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#3. The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades - ka-ching!

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#4. If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest.

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#5. What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

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#6. People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.

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#7. My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

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#8. 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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#9. For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.

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#10. I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.

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#11. The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication.

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#12. One day robots may babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch.

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#13. 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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#14. Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

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#15. Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

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#16. The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.

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#17. I actually prefer Abby," she said.
"I'm sorry?"
"Nobody calls me Abigail unless it's my mom and she's mad.

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#18. Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels but $14 a night at expensive ones.

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#19. 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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#20. Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop. If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.

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#21. A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.

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#22. 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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#23. 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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