Barry Diller Quotes

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

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BusinessTimeManagementLongYou

Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.

Jenna Wortham

WorkLiveTimeInterestingPersonal

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

John Zorn

PeopleEdgeMatterSpontaneous

At some major events - your birth and death, for example - while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you.

Steve Blank

DeathPeopleAttentionYouImportant

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

Mike Davidson

TechnologyChildrenSchoolComputers

I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.

Jason Ralph

BootsPersonKindPantsShirtOnly

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

Jonathan Powell

LiveUglyDemocracyLearnTerrorism

When you come into our house, you get a flavor for our life, our travels, our kids, our 18-year-old poodle who is like, blind, deaf and incontinent but so happy.

Debi Mazar

LifeHappyBlindYouHouseDeaf

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Christopher Hitchens

ReligionYouKnowEnglishCompulsory

I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'

Conor Oberst

HappinessCreativityThinkThought

We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.

Astro Teller

ValueWorldBelieveCreatingGoogle

I was a precocious child.

Pippa Evans

ChildPrecocious

What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?

Peter Maurer

LawWorldStartHellQuestioning

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