78 Quotes by Barry Diller

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

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

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

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

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

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

The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

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.

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