The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
BARRY DILLERFacebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.
More Barry Diller Quotes
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The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Facebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.
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We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
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I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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I’m never absolutely sure of anything, and I don’t want to be. You’re either right and you’ll pull through, or you’re not. We’re never going to be right about everything, and we’ve certainly been wrong.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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