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We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

Barry Diller

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

Artist Ticketmaster Tickets
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.
BARRY DILLER

Opinion People World
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
BARRY DILLER

Economic Issues Models Solve
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
BARRY DILLER

Conduct Service Smallness
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
BARRY DILLER

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

Firsts Publishing Transition
What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
BARRY DILLER

Focus Purpose Years
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
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
BARRY DILLER

Believe Internet Promise
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
BARRY DILLER

Surprise Want World

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