David Pogue Quotes

David Welch Pogue is an American technology writer and TV science presenter. He is a personal technology columnist for Yahoo! Tech, a technology correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, a columnist for Scientific American, and a technology columnist for The New York Times. He is also the host of NOVA ScienceNow on PBS and was the host of the NOVA specials Making Stuff in 2011 and 2013 and Hunting the Elements in 2012. Pogue has written or co-written seven books in the For Dummies series .

In 1999, he launched his own series of computer how-to books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles covering a variety of Macintosh and Windows operating systems and applications. Among the dozens of books Pogue has authored is The World According to Twitter , written in collaboration with around 500,000 of his Twitter followers, and Pogue's Basics , which was a New York Times bestseller.On October 21, 2013, Pogue announced he would be leaving The New York Times after 13 years in order to join Yahoo!, where he would create a new consumer-technology Web site. At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, Pogue joined Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer onstage during her keynote speech to throw the "on" switch for that new site, Yahoo! Tech. On November 13, 2018, Pogue announced his return to the Times as the writer of the "Crowdwise" feature for the "Smarter Living" section. Wikipedia  

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Famous David Pogue Quotes

“Five billion dollars a year spent on ringtones? What the?”

" Pogue’s Imponderables http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/pogues-imponderables/," The New York Times, October 18, 2007.

“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.”

" The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/technology/personaltech/24pogue.html," The New York Times, February 24, 2009.

“You're witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone.”

" Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/personaltech/13pogue-email.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin," The New York Times, March 13, 2008.

“People won’t start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.”

" State of the Art: Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?emc=eta1," The New York Times, July 09, 2009.

“For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, "Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it."”

" State of the Art: Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?emc=eta1," The New York Times, July 09, 2009.

“The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades — ka-ching!”

" The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/technology/personaltech/24pogue.html," The New York Times, February 24, 2009.

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