Quotes from David Pogue

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?

I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.

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.

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

Okay, Eliza. Now–you know–rise up! Think about those buffalos," Abby said. "Walking backward," added Ben. "Wearing diapers!" Ricky reminded her, giggling with glee. "I know how to do it!" Eliza snapped.

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

Use e.g. when you mean "for example": "I like junk food—e.g., Doritos and Pringles." (How to remember: "For eg-zample.") Use i.e. when you mean "in other words": "He ate Doritos and Pringles—i.e., junk food." (How to remember: "in other words.")

The technique differs slightly depending on whether you have an X-class phone (iPhone X, XR, XS, XS Max) or one with a home button:

Facebook and Twitter, online petitions, comments sent from apps such as Countable, and boilerplate emails that come from advocacy-group websites. Don't waste your time. Congresspeople don't trust these channels; they're too easy to hack, game, or blast out en masse.

Just for fun, have a look at Miami. The nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists calculates that by 2060, a staggering 58.5% of Miami's inhabitable land will be underwater. By 2100, it'll be more like 94%. Miami is going away.

For example, if you click Washington, DC, you learn that by 2080 it will feel like today's Greenwood, Mississippi, which is 9.8° hotter and 75% wetter than today's DC. And if you click Jacksonville, Florida, you discover that it will feel like the southern tip of Mexico—practically Belize.

Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power and survive drops, spills and being run over. And their file format will still be readable 200 years from now.

The Great Lakes. If there's a climate-change sweet spot in the United States, this is it: the Northern states that get their water from the Great Lakes. They're Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The keystroke to open the Preferences dialog box in every Apple program — Mail, Safari, iMovie, Photos, TextEdit, Preview, and on and on — is always the same: -comma. Better yet, that standard is catching on in other apps, too, like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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