Top 33 Kara Swisher Quotes

I used to do a lot of casual photography – back in the olden times when one used film – but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

I don’t have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don’t fight the trend.

Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

It’s not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.

The tech industry – and, more specifically, Silicon Valley – continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

Really smart people don’t want to say stupid things, and they really don’t want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there’s no way you can’t do well.

I don’t write about Google except to insult the company.

While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.

My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.

I’m focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.

We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, ‘How do you break so many stories?’ it’s because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.

Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo‘s almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

It’s the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you’re able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo’s record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune – a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except – due to her rejection of Apollo‘s affections – nobody would ever believe her warnings.

Equipped with two cell phones – one for work and another for home – I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and – oh, yes – talk at will.

It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.

With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.

I don’t mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.

While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.

I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.

Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts – use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.