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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. "

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" 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

High School

Bad

Clothes

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

Kara Swisher

Everything

Mind

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

" 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. "

" 'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however. "

" 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

Kind

Rude

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere. "

" No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW. "

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

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

Kara Swisher

Become

Will

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Kara Swisher

Stand

Line

" 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. "

" I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading. "

" 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. "

" 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

Relevant

Call

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "