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. – 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
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. – Kara Swisher
While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not. – Kara Swisher
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. – Kara Swisher
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
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. – Kara Swisher
Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere. – Kara Swisher
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. – Kara Swisher
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. – Kara Swisher
I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about. – Kara Swisher
It’s not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing. – Kara Swisher
I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge. – Kara Swisher
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. – Kara Swisher
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
Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads – I just write it. – Kara Swisher
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. – Kara Swisher
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
It’s easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies. – Kara Swisher
Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, ‘utilitarian.’ I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit. – Kara Swisher
One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod. – Kara Swisher
I don’t think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley. – Kara Swisher
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the ‘Washington Post.’ – Kara Swisher
I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s. – Kara Swisher
