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.
BARRY DILLERThe 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.
More Barry Diller Quotes
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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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If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.
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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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People have paid for content. They always have.
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I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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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.
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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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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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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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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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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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All forms of commerce are adversarial.
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