“You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.”

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

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.

The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.

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.

What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

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.

We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

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.