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All forms of commerce are adversarial.

Barry Diller

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
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Advertising Trying Want
I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Conduct Service Smallness
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Economic Issues Models Solve
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
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Surprise Want World
People have paid for content. They always have.
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Always Content Paid People
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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Buttons Ideas Miracle
I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.
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Believe Law Natural
I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Great Opportunity Said Somebody
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Ability Air Signals
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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May Real Taken
We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
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Enough Smart World
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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Creative Different Internet
I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good Man Manager
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Pain Reality World
The only way anyone’s going to succeed is to build the product.
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Products Succeed Way
We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Law Needs Steps

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

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