David Pogue Quotes

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into.

Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.

There are lots of people in the Silicon Valley who are interested in working at a fast-moving, dynamic company like Google. Not just my family members.

Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

The truth is that you can't really tell how anybody's doing in the tech business for at least five or 10 years.

I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'

In high school, I actually thought I was going to have to learn Japanese to work in technology. My big feeling was I just missed it, I missed the whole thing. It had happened in the '80s, and I got here too late. But then, I'm maybe the most optimistic person I know. I mean, I'm incredibly optimistic.

I'm delighted to be returning to my California roots and joining Google.

I've spoken to people in Silicon Valley, and many times they have said to me, 'X storyline, or that thing that happened in your show - pretty much verbatim has happened to me.' And it's either identical or similar enough to be scary.

The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.

There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'

There was a 'Wired' cover that had a big Apple logo with a crown of barbed wire as thorns, and underneath it just said, 'Pray.' I remember this because of how upsetting it was. Basically saying either it's going to just go out of business or be bought.

Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I'd like to make an album with Slack one day. I'd like to use it as a collaborative tool. I know about it because I have friends that work in tech, and I guess you can use it in any job.

When I joined Google, it was a 1,500-person company, which I thought was huge, since I don't think of myself as a corporate person.

I wanted to become a lawyer because I saw Kelly McGillis on 'The Accused.' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'L.A. Law,' 'Ally McBeal' - all of these have inspired women to go into law. I think the opposite is happening in technology.

Anyone who thinks restaurants are hard should try working at a tech company.

In tech, people want an object for what's inside it, what it does. You need to make a defensive design that people won't walk away from. A chair is aggressive - you want a customer to choose it from many others.

I think I was really lucky to work as a little kid at PayPal, grew up in the Valley as a coder.

It's all men on my channel. All my comment sections are engineers at Google.