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People have paid for content. They always have.

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

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

I am a contrarian.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

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

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

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

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

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

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

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

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

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

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

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

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

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

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

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

If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug.

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.

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

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.

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.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

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

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.