David Pogue

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

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

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 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. ”

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

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. ”