Kara Swisher Quotes

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.

I love Silicon Valley, but there is a dominant voice of, 'Tech is cool. Tech is geeky. Tech is a guy with a hoodie.'

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

I wouldn't say that I know a lot about 'Silicon Valley'. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don't live and breathe this stuff the way most of the guys out there do.

The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

We will always have our critics because we are Manchester United. It has been like that since I have been here.

The fame isn't important to me. It's a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

Pishevar, co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, is a powerful figure in the Valley and a bridge to establishment figures on both coasts. He cultivated a relationship with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick and publicly came to his defense when he was ousted as chief executive officer and sued by another investor.

Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.

You think the end of my freshman year, from nobody really knowing who I was to skyrocketing onto the scene in the national championship game, there's nothing but good things to say after that. Then you get into the spotlight and it turns to hate.

I am privileged and very happy to be a professional sportsperson, but should that make people so angry?

I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity.