Kara Swisher

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

“I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.”

“As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.”

“It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.”

“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.”

“Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'”

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

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

“It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.”

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

“Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.”

“My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.”

“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.”