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" I don't write about Google except to insult the company. "
Kara Swisher
Write
Company
Google
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" For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. "
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" 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. "
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Better
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" I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak? "
Kara Swisher
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Am
Freak
" 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. "
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Me
Myself
Service
" I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about. "
Kara Swisher
Big
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" 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. "
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Impact
Good
Values
" 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. "
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Moment
Tomorrow
" 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. "
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Good
Interest
Way
" 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. "
Kara Swisher
Think
Truth Is
Appreciate
" 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
" 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
Top
Women
More
" 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
Gift
Rejection
Nobody
" 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
You
Risk
Know
" 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? "
Kara Swisher
Just
Group
Family
" 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
Truth
I Am
Humor
" No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW. "
Kara Swisher
Old
How
Matter
" 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
More
Relevant
Call
" It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing. "
Kara Swisher
Whole
Learning
Filled
" As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical. "
Kara Swisher
More
Become
Will
" 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
Technology
iPhone
Despite
" 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. "
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Own
California
Death
" 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. "
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Think
You
Got
" 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. "
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Always
Baby
Mother
" 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
Vacation
Testing
Memories
" I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim. "
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Persistence
Love
Consistency
" Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.' "
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Washington
Early
Everything
" A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love. "
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Investment
Merger
Only
" As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend. "
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Everything
Like
Mind
" 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. "
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Love
Moment
Daily
" 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. "
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