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In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.
David McCandless
Beautiful
Space
Websites
Relief
Colour
Clearing
Like
Content
Lot
Jungle
Walking
Endless
Image
I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.
David McCandless
Love
Sometimes
Situation
Busy
Stay
Instant
Overview
Current
Want
Information
Grasp
Second
Need
Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.
David McCandless
Internet
Long
Power
Design
Birth
Has-Been
Guru
Rise
Something
Having
Since
Like
Known
Yale
Around
Been
Edward
Pioneers
Information
Agency
Used
Now
Second
University
At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial from Capitol Hill for WTVH-TV in my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I then covered Hillary Clinton's first Senate run.
David Muir
Myself
Impeachment
First
President
Trial
Syracuse
Anchoring
Run
New
Hill
Hillary
Coverage
Covered
Clinton
Senate
York
New York
Then
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Found
Hometown
If any event teaches you how to perform on no sleep, it's a hurricane.
David Muir
You
Hurricane
Perform
How
Any
Teaches
Event
Sleep
The reporting has always been what drives me.
David Muir
Me
Drives
Always
Been
Reporting
There's no such thing as alternative facts.
David Muir
Facts
Alternative
Thing
While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts governor.
David Muir
Anchoring
Run
Boston
Massachusetts
Mitt
Governor
Reported
While
Romney
Our job every single night is to call out hypocrisy on both sides to make sure we're holding Republicans accountable and Democrats accountable, that we're holding the president accountable for promises made.
David Muir
Job
Made
Promises
Hypocrisy
Single
Holding
Every
President
Our
Sides
Out
Both
Both Sides
Make
Call
Sure
Democrats
Single Night
Accountable
Republicans
Night
Every Single Night
Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.
David Muir
Hope
News
Conversation
Achieve
Something
Always
His
America
James
Wanted
James Bond
Really
Peter
Evening
Evening News
Bond
I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do.
David Muir
Work
Love
Looking
Back
Seven
Week
Days
Because
Pat
Often
I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered.
David Muir
Home
People
Answered
Questions
Want
Ask
Need
Not a day goes by when we're not grateful to see that viewers seem to be responding.
David Muir
Day
Grateful
Responding
See
Seem
Goes
Viewers
Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too.
David Muir
Myself
News
Travel
World
Every
Too
Kid
Hunger
Out
Backyard
Would
Inside
See
Had
Knew
Excuse
Go
Get
Wanted
Peter
Evening
Evening News
Watch
Playing
Thirst
I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people there are reflected all over the country.
David Muir
People
Fears
Country
Think
Hopes
Having
Over
New
Concerns
Up
Reflected
York
New York
Sensibilities
Upstate
Upstate New York
Grown
Grown-Up
I think that with our 'Made in America' segments, where we go out to these factories all around the country, is essentially giving people a high-five and signal to them that we're in this together.
David Muir
Together
People
Made
Giving
Country
Think
Our
Signal
Out
All-Around
Segments
Factories
Around
Go
America
Essentially
Where
Them
When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us.
David Muir
Travel
Country
Struck
More
Divides
Powerful
How
Am
How Much
Than
Reported
Often
Common
Us
Much
Actually
If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.
David Muir
Positive
News
People
World
Positive Thing
Way
Hopefully
More
Come
Around
Get
Any
Form
Them
Engaged
Thing
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?
David Pogue
Business
Science
Innovation
World
Problems
Will
Energy
Engineering
Every
Our
Solving
New
Global
Ticket
Global Warming
How
New World
Pollution
Interest
Warming
Compete
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.
David Pogue
Time
Travel
Thought
Spent
Carry
About
How
Lot
Refining
Ridiculous
Amount
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.
David Pogue
Try
Entertaining
Audience
End
Curious
Representative
In The End
Jargon
Translate
Techno
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.
David Pogue
Technology
Key
Understanding
Beginning
Brought
Point
Layman
Point Of View
Write
Never
Outsider
Which
View
Publication
Why
Career
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
David Pogue
Believe
Teen
Teen Years
Magic
Magician
Something
Through
Like
Became
Amateur
Years
Did
Interest
Shows
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.
David Pogue
Me
You
Technology
Magic
Magical
Seem
Something
Fired
Consumer
Push
Most
Always
Command
Been
Up
Get
Closest
Closest Thing
Happens
Little
Your
Thing
Things
Button
A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.
David Pogue
Life
My Life
Say
Running
Anything
Inability
Theme
For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.
David Pogue
Technology
Science
World
Share
Myths
Industry
Sure
Built
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