28 Kara Swisher Quotes for You to Enjoy

Kara Swisher

American Journalist

Born: Jan 25, 1963

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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. Kara Swisher

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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak? Kara Swisher

Freak Geek Know Am

Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer. Kara Swisher

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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general. Kara Swisher

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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. Kara Swisher

I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better. Kara Swisher

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

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I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age. Kara Swisher

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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry. Kara Swisher

Love Technology Despite Blackberry Feature Miss iPhone

Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic. Kara Swisher

Rather Most Than Reporters Strategic

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

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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that. Kara Swisher

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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. Kara Swisher

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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. Kara Swisher

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. Kara Swisher

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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. Kara Swisher

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. Kara Swisher

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

Me Somewhere Twitter Else Find Something Somewhere Else Leads Always Interesting

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. Kara Swisher

Mother Astonishing Record Loving Grandmother

Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since. Kara Swisher

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. Kara Swisher

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Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother. Kara Swisher

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

College Killer Collection Throughout Bought Toy Still Infant Tiny While

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. Kara Swisher

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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. Kara Swisher

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