Barry Diller Quotes

Just don’t bet against the Internet.

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

This is the age of disruption.

No company has embraced the liberating aspects of the Internet as a 'new marketplace of ideas' more than the search giant Google.

Without having to ask anyone's permission, innovators everywhere used the Internet's open platform to start companies that have transformed how billions of people live and work.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.