Jonathan Taplin Quotations

Michelle Kwan's story is a little bit sad and she's not a winner, she's a loser.

Ninety percent of the people on 'Survivor' you never hear from again either so, you know, Andy Warhol was right. They had their 15 minutes of fame - and that was it.

There are people out there who are comfortable watching video on the Web.

This is not using the Internet. The service itself sits on a private virtual network.

The information revolution now gives us access to too much information. Our problems are that we're just overwhelmed, so in some sense we just basically don't even know where to turn.

It's never been the studios' way to just sell movies to their own channels.

I'm not sure that a company wants Michelle Kwan as a spokesperson at this point because she's not perceived to be victorious.

Disney can give advertisers very specific demographic information about each viewer, so you might get a very different ad than your wife would and a completely different ad than your teenage daughter would.

This notion of some grand battle between content owners and network owners, I think it's specious. Network owners can partition bandwidth in such a way that everyone can have access to the Internet in a way we have today and provide some value-added services. There should be plenty of room for everyone to do what they want.