Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brittany Snow

AOL Instant Messenger was a big thing back in the day, where girls would get on it and make fun of me. There was a certain girl, and she wanted to make me feel bad.

The AOL unit is a critical piece of the puzzle.

The AOL Time Warner statement speaks for itself.

The AOL/Time Warner merger could really bring broadband from the cutting-edge, early adapter users to mass-market consumers, something AOL excels in,

The AOL division actually came in worse than expected.

The AOL business has been in terrible shape the last year and a half,

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.

Microsoft wants to own the real estate even of the AOL members,

Windows XP is designed to bring more choice and options to consumers, not fewer, in stark contrast to AOL Time Warner's closed, proprietary strategy.

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.

We are committed to our AOL Europe business.

James Fisher

We don't do a lot of outgoing telemarketing anyway. We now sell our products as bundles through our business ventures with AOL and through our partnerships with airlines. Direct mail and Internet marketing isn't really our main focus.

One of the most exciting things about this transaction related to the music business, ... Through AOL and through the Internet, you have a worldwide opportunity to promote. The music business is built on signing new acts, and this new society has a vast field of which to choose. Also, music lends itself to the digital downloading and more efficient delivery of music.

David Sobel

But AOL does not in writing guarantee they'll provide notice.

From a Time Warner stock perspective, it's just great that everyone is going back and really having to examine what is AOL and why is everyone so interested in it.

If AOL or another ISP decides that someone's a spammer, then no e-mail from that individual gets through. But there's a fundamental difficulty at the heart of the spam debate: The only one who knows what you want delivered in your inbox is you.

If AOL is out to reach a really broad market, my guess is this is about a new Internet appliance in the home that would connect to your TV, that this has more to do with a set-top box and less to do with computers,

If AOL is going to become a powerhouse again, it needs to return to growth. This is a first step.

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.

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.

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.

Sergey Brin

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

There are challenges in joint ventures about who controls what. AOL has had some challenges cross-selling with Time Warner.

Whether they work for dot-coms, whether they own dot-coms, a lot of them work for investment companies, banks, venture capitalists, ... I can look at people's e-mail addresses and there's very few AOL or Hotmail e-mail addresses. You see Price Waterhouse addresses and Andersen consulting e-mail addresses.

What happens to poor AOL if it can't do what it did to dissuade?

Jason Calacanis

Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

This was not a big surprise. The events of Sept. 11 give ( AOL ) the opportunity to make this announcement.