“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.”

I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.

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.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

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

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

The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

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.

People have paid for content. They always have.

I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

He may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself.

In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone.

Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.

We may think that we love certain people, but we don’t know how profoundly we love them.