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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

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
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
If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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Drug Epiphany Kind
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
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
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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Anything Right Sure Want
All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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Adversarial Commerce Form
Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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Dumb Feet Progression
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
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.
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Buttons Ideas Miracle
The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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Entertainment Ideas Years
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.
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Night Obvious People Screw Two
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
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet

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