Quotes About Sxsw

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

Kara Swisher

#2. The challenge with SXSW and events like it is it's so big and overwhelming, it's easy to get lost in the crowd.

John Hagel III

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

Kara Swisher

#4. You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.

Mark Kozelek

#5. The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.

Ryan Holmes

#6. At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

John Hagel III

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

Kara Swisher

#8. Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

Keke Palmer

#9. Love is an exercise in selective perception

Esther Perel

#10. For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

Charles Kingsley

#11. The astute journalist had commented that Russians enjoy themselves without smiling, always taking their pleasure sadly.

Elise Blackwell

#12. America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

Jimmy Carter