Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Arrington

If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately written about it and disclosed the situation to our readers. And if I had ever ordered a writer to remove content, I would have expected that writer to have done the same to me.

Sergey Brin

I don't know what would have happened if we hadn't won that AOL deal,

The fact that AOL and Microsoft are moving in the same direction is good for everybody.

Robert Pittman

Having worked so hard to build the AOL service and brand, and after then going through the merger and the last 18 months, it's time to take a break.

Dave Lewis

What I see AOL trying to do now is outsource a program that has been expensive for it to maintain. It also is attempting to monetize the relationship with senders, which I view as a business decision.

Robert Graham

We logged into an AOL server using an AOL Messenger and did a capture of the traffic between a server and a client. During the log-in process I found what indeed was a buffer overflow exploit,

I think AOL took these guys to the cleaners,

James Goss

I think AOL Time Warner is worth a lot more than it's trading for,

I think AOL has been hammered a lot because of concerns about free (Internet) service, about their slowing growth internationally and a few other issues including broadband, ... But you can't argue with 18 million customers. And of course their customer turnover rate has never been (lower). So, the company is holding to their customers longer, they have a much larger base. I think (Chief Executive Officer) Steve Case will find a way to make it through these issues.

I think it's totally insignificant to AOL. At this point, Microsoft has more to gain from this discussion than AOL does.

James Goss

From the Time Warner and AOL perspective, it's been a plus obviously that they're getting fought over. It says very good things about the importance and the place at the table, if you will, that AOL represents.

For this to really work, essentially what really happens here is AOL becomes a direct competitor to Microsoft.

Fred Wilson

Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.

With AOL likely switching to Navigator, the pendulum will swing heavily back to Navigator.

There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.

While this is unexpected, it indicates that AOL is remaining technologically agnostic. But I wouldn't expect AOL, if they expand DSL trials further, to compete in the same markets as Time Warner.

Charles Stiles

While the volume of spam reaching AOL email inboxes has remained at low levels compared to it's height in late 2003, the spam that's out there is more insidious, crafty, devious, and dangerous than ever.

Henry Blodget

We contend AOL Time Warner is powerful enough that it won't go gently into the night (unlike Novell, WordPerfect, Lotus, Netscape, et al). We do believe, however, that developments between the two companies over the next year or two will have significant bearing on the long-term direction of the industry.

Jonathan Sacks

This will be AOL's first multi-bandwidth and multi-device client. AOL is about convenience and applications. And those applications should be ubiquitous.

Our groundbreaking partnership with CBS brings together two industry leaders to better serve both AOL members and viewers of CBS News programs. CBS's unparalleled tradition of news leadership promises a new landmark in innovative online news programming for our members. And AOL's integration into CBS News programs will provide their audiences with a fresh, interactive dimension to the viewing experience.

Mel Karmazin

Over the next 12 months, AOL members will view half a billion pages with the CBS News logo framing our editorial content, ... That's a tremendous number of impressions, in a medium that augments our more traditional television and radio audience.

I think the XP issue is a rather small event in the big-picture rivalry between AOL and Microsoft,

I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.

It does certainly seem like everyone is interested in AOL these days, particularly because of its (large volume of) traffic, ... There is no clear indication that AOL is even looking to sell, but now, all of a sudden, they are the most popular girl at the dance.

Steve Case

I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness. Over the past few months, I have been pleased to see a renewed focus on AOL at Time Warner, and the emergence of so many strategic alternatives.

I think that to a large extent the reality of instant messaging is AOL and ICQ.

I think we're going to see some more deals of this sort in future months, as AOL expands its presence in the broadband market.

Jonathan Sacks

Our research shows that our members want to use their AOL e-mail, My Calendar, AOL Instant Messenger, and other valued features wherever they are. The new AOL.com site brings us even closer to our goal of bringing 'AOL Anywhere,'

Unlike Amazon, AOL does not have to worry about shipping (or similar logistics). They have a lot of success shuffling people to sites and they'll get a cut of the transaction or they'll just get rental fees. Either way, they'll benefit from e-commerce with high margins in the big picture.

We have already told AOL that it's likely we will need to do that discovery if the government relies on information provided by AOL regarding its search engine. And we've also so informed Microsoft.

Michael Arrington

More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we not comply, we'd write a post about the whole thing.

We wanted to make a statement. The new AOL is optimized for today's high-speed (Internet) user.

Jim Chapman

We've got prototypes in our labs right now and we're working with Gateway and AOL to bring them to the market. We have booked substantial production orders for those devices.