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Barry Diller

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Firsts Publishing Transition
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
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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May Real Taken
Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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Children Community Hollywood
The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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Rooms Running World
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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Believe Internet Promise
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Law Needs Steps
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
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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Being Done Done Twenties
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody

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