Daniel Lyons Professions : Writer Born : 1960 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by Daniel Lyons I was a technology reporter. And I think everybody who covers tech at some point or another feels like a little kid with their face pressed against the glass looking in at the candy shop and going, 'Wow, it looks so cool and so much fun.' Daniel Lyons face looking cool technology There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases. Daniel Lyons write skill things people I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways. Daniel Lyons new media business people You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business. Daniel Lyons you technology business change People in startup-land live inside it. They see themselves as really good people even when they're doing something that's very bad. There's a huge disconnect from reality in the tech world. Daniel Lyons good good-people people world My role on 'Silicon Valley' was so small that I didn't have a lot of influence anyway in the show. There are four guys who really write that show and run that show and then six or eight hanging out in a room kicking in a few bits. Daniel Lyons hanging small run influence I think the issues around diversity of all kinds are really a huge problem in the startup world. Daniel Lyons think diversity problem world I guess I always had made some assumptions about what it would be like to work in a tech company, and some were right, and some were wrong. I had a lot of, looking back on it, now naive ideas about how companies build their brands, and a lot of those notions I ended up realizing were kind of wrong. Daniel Lyons looking looking-back work ideas There are two types of young people - the partiers and the people who wanted a sense of purpose in their life. Daniel Lyons purpose young life people Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors