Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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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Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.
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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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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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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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We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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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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The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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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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The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.
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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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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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