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We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

Barry Diller

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
BARRY DILLER

Firsts Publishing Transition
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
BARRY DILLER

Ability Air Signals
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
BARRY DILLER

Enough Smart World
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
BARRY DILLER

Children Community Hollywood
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.
BARRY DILLER

May Real Taken
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
BARRY DILLER

Creative Different Internet
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLER

Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
BARRY DILLER

Law Needs Steps
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER

Products Succeed Way
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
BARRY DILLER

Adversarial Commerce Form
I never thought I was a very good manager.
BARRY DILLER

Good Man Manager
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
BARRY DILLER

Dumb Feet Progression
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLER

Conduct Service Smallness
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.
BARRY DILLER

Anything Right Sure Want
You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
BARRY DILLER

Advertising Trying Want
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
BARRY DILLER

Buttons Ideas Miracle

We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

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