We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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.
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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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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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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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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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Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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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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Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.
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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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The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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