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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.

- Barry Diller

Will, Established, Overhead, Envision

Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

- Barry Diller

New, Models, New Business, Pointed

The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

- Barry Diller

Business, New, Some, Subscription

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.

- Barry Diller

Deal, Everybody, Very, Personal Information

Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.

- Barry Diller

Everybody, Couple, Dozens, Burnett

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.

- Barry Diller

Proud, Over, Like, Steadily

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

- Barry Diller

Over, Broadcast, Receive, Signal

If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.

- Barry Diller

Play, Give, Disclosure, Sensible

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

- Barry Diller

World, Want, Set, Surprises

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

- Barry Diller

Ideas, Me, Own, Invention

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

- Barry Diller

Want, Understand, Get, Headache

Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.

- Barry Diller

Media, I Think, Affect, Pouring

We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

- Barry Diller

Give, Unbelievable, Deny, Tax Breaks

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

- Barry Diller

Law, Stop, Need, Consumer

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

- Barry Diller

Opportunity, Said, Always, Great Opportunity

There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.

- Barry Diller

Happen, Six, Certainly, Businesses

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

- Barry Diller

Purpose, Over, Learned, Businesses

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

- Barry Diller

Business, Like, Ever, Businesses

The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.

- Barry Diller

Magic, Why, Largest, Businesses

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

- Barry Diller

Believe, Will, Promise, Passing

Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.

- Barry Diller

Hands, Very, Began, Concentrated

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

- Barry Diller

Over, Been, Figure, Decades

I never thought I was a very good manager.

- Barry Diller

Thought, Never, Very, Good Manager

Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.

- Barry Diller

Small, Access, Broadcast, Device

What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.

- Barry Diller

Wealthy, Replace, Code, Grab

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.

- Barry Diller

Extraordinary, Idea, Button, Send

If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.

- Barry Diller

Run, Explain, Going, Parameters

People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.

- Barry Diller

Me, Emotional, About, iPad

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.

- Barry Diller

Young, Go, Right, Distribution

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

- Barry Diller

Now, Along, Brought, Distribution

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