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

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

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

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

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

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

Barry Diller

I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

Barry Diller

I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.

Barry Diller

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

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

Barry Diller

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

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.

Barry Diller

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

Barry Diller

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

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

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

People have paid for content. They always have.

Barry Diller

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

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