Barry Diller

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”