Randall L. Stephenson quote: "We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers."

Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and inte...
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We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way fo...
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CNN is an American symbol of independent journalism and First Amendment free speech. My board and I ...
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including...
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leaders...
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AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives sign...
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This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public p...
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a ...
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Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a bus...
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Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the...
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corp...
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I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it a...
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure...
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other...
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I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an ...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON

We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious abou...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, a...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer togeth...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we bo...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one o...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But ...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical th...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with the...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings an...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
PAMELA STEPHENSON

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ...
NEAL STEPHENSON

From long experience in places like Afghanisatan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognised, in the black jiha...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
NEAL STEPHENSON

Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events,...
NEAL STEPHENSON

She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what s...
NEAL STEPHENSON

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON

I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can b...
GEORGE STEPHENSON

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them...
NEAL STEPHENSON

The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and...
NEAL STEPHENSON

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the...
PAMELA STEPHENSON

Gold is the corpse of value...
NEAL STEPHENSON

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has...
NEAL STEPHENSON

For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take...
NEAL STEPHENSON

[So, to lose the weight, she avoided faddy diets and devised a balanced eating plan.] I was careful ...
DEBRA STEPHENSON

We work closely with the customer. The MoD sends us 'subject matter experts' who have just returned ...
COLIN STEPHENSON

It was like havingan 8 month hangover!
DEBRA STEPHENSON

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's social...
NEAL STEPHENSON

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well...
NEAL STEPHENSON

The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before...
GEORGE STEPHENSON

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
NEAL STEPHENSON

Integrating the show with the commercial air traffic has been a really tricky exercise.
COLIN STEPHENSON

The idea is that it's not just the military that's going to be delivering the effect anymore. It's b...
BARBARA STEPHENSON

It's inadvertent almost always but it really does take time.
BARBARA STEPHENSON

History has shown us that when we wait until we get on the ground to come up with a strategy in real...
BARBARA STEPHENSON

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, cert...
NEAL STEPHENSON

It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
NEAL STEPHENSON

We set a miserable tone from the start.
GENE STEPHENSON

We'll tell each other that we love each other and I'm always going to be there for him.
AMANDA STEPHENSON

The timing is really important.
AMANDA STEPHENSON

Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently a...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything ...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepi...
NEAL STEPHENSON

The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness
NEAL STEPHENSON

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
NEAL STEPHENSON

All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together,looking for the America they alway...
NEAL STEPHENSON

The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right n...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relati...
NEAL STEPHENSON

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or somet...
NEAL STEPHENSON

When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technol...
NEAL STEPHENSON

The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in ano...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done.
NEAL STEPHENSON

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading sta...
NEAL STEPHENSON

It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,” Vic says, looking through his magic sight. “Five g...
NEAL STEPHENSON

..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this pla...
NEAL STEPHENSON

When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
NEAL STEPHENSON

We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your...
NEAL STEPHENSON

This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”

Juanita shrugs. “What'...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.
NEAL STEPHENSON

Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big ol...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Did you win your sword fight?"
"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the g...
NEAL STEPHENSON

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Beca...
NEAL STEPHENSON

I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.
NEAL STEPHENSON

It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies w...
NEAL STEPHENSON

I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.
NEAL STEPHENSON

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
NEAL STEPHENSON

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
NEAL STEPHENSON

In an apt demonstration of the principle of relativity, as propounded by Galileo, the bawdy platter ...
NEAL STEPHENSON

We kind of threw something together with fins and some brightly colored stuff and a gas mask, which ...
BILL STEPHENSON

We knew coming into this year that the bar was raised, and I think we all knew what we wanted to do....
BRANDON STEPHENSON

They slid to Boyce a lot, and he's one of our most potent dodgers.
ED STEPHENSON

The plan seems very comprehensive, and I was very impressed with it. (The plan) is headed in the rig...
BOB STEPHENSON

I cannot justify not being at 100 percent of the market rate, and we should do everything we can to ...
BOB STEPHENSON

I don't know if beating them in the fourth overtime like that was necessarily a good thing for us. I...
BRANDON STEPHENSON

I like having the pressure on me. My teammates played a great game tonight, and I just did my job.
BRANDON STEPHENSON

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purpose...
NEAL STEPHENSON

James was delighted with them, too. I've always liked having bigger boobs. At first I was a bit sad ...
DEBRA STEPHENSON

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass,...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn ...
NEAL STEPHENSON

And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way," Leibniz sai...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?
NEAL STEPHENSON

The large pieces of furniture and the decorator items are the first to go.
TODD STEPHENSON

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was tru...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Not like it used to be. It didn't seem like we were excited -- this whole ballpark just seemed quiet...
GENE STEPHENSON

This is the biggest fund-raiser of the year for the elementary.
LORI STEPHENSON

We squandered some opportunities, but some of that may have been their pitching.
GENE STEPHENSON

Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same e...
NEAL STEPHENSON

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
NEAL STEPHENSON

We were building a picket fence and we decided to put a gate in.
NELSON STEPHENSON

I am happy with the personnel, ... We've got the potential to be much, much better than we showed th...
GENE STEPHENSON

He's rich," Jack muttered to Eliza, "or connected with rich persons."
"Yes—the clothes, the c...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Ever think of introducing yourself?" Y.T. says.
"Nah," he says, "people always forget names. Yo...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Everybody is different, so it's important to notice what affects you, which is why I kept a food dia...
DEBRA STEPHENSON

Acting is my priority.
DEBRA STEPHENSON

I love singing and I'd be thrilled if my album did well.
DEBRA STEPHENSON

It was like having
an 8 month hangover!
DEBRA STEPHENSON

She loves Danny but she can't forgive him.
DEBRA STEPHENSON

Twenty years may seem like a long time, but for the heinousness of the crime, it's not that long. If...
EDWARD STEPHENSON

We certainly don't want him out but there's not a thing we can do.
EDWARD STEPHENSON

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.
GEORGE STEPHENSON

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
GEORGE STEPHENSON

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or el...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor....
NEAL STEPHENSON

He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy.

They gave him an in...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding,...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...
NEAL STEPHENSON

It was designed as a multi-purpose building so that you can do a variety of events.
CHRISTOPHER STEPHENSON

Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over o...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subcultur...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confus...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Therapies administered included but were not limited to: turning things off, then on again; picking ...
NEAL STEPHENSON

El desarrollo de software comparte con el deporte profesional la característica de lograr que los t...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men ...
NEAL STEPHENSON

The bluegill population is very good. We haven't collected any 'trophy' bluegill, but there are many...
DAN STEPHENSON

That means we had 14 bass over 18 inches every hour.
DAN STEPHENSON

We still don't know why. We assume it has something to do with heat fluctuations.
DAN STEPHENSON

In the spring of 2005 during a night shocking survey, we collected 119 bass per hour averaging over ...
DAN STEPHENSON

One was doing so well, so why not put in two?
DAN STEPHENSON

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON

If we going to sell this to the public, we are going to have explain how these dollars are going to ...
DAVE STEPHENSON

It will always come to the biggest entity who they assume has the biggest pockets.
DAVE STEPHENSON

It's great for our community and for the men and women in our armed services.
DAVE STEPHENSON

There is nothing more important than the children and the youth of our community and it's an ideal s...
DAVE STEPHENSON

Something like this is long past due.
DAVE STEPHENSON

We know the purpose and intent of this building, but reading the fine print, the building retains ba...
DAVE STEPHENSON

I have no idea how he caught that ball. You can't say enough about Matt Brown and how he plays the o...
GENE STEPHENSON

He has played very well defensively at third base. He's swinging the bat well. He can add some punch...
GENE STEPHENSON

They can go get the ball with anybody and make all the plays.
GENE STEPHENSON

We have a lot of depth. We can withstand some injuries and not be devastated.
GENE STEPHENSON

I think he's got real promise, ... He's loose, and he's got a great swing.
GENE STEPHENSON

He's truly a very remarkable, special athlete. He's an outstanding hitting prospect.
GENE STEPHENSON

I've always felt WSU was the premier university in the Missouri Valley Conference. We have the best ...
GENE STEPHENSON

Words can't describe a group that has been with us for four years and started the program.
ED STEPHENSON

We could have held them a little tighter, which is what we've done in the past. We've got to score e...
ED STEPHENSON

Each year the recruiting is getting better. Better kids are looking at us, and we're getting more of...
ED STEPHENSON

We played a great first half defensively. We struggled to break them down one-on-one on the offensiv...
ED STEPHENSON

We weren't sharp on either end. We didn't do anything on offense; we didn't do anything on defense. ...
ED STEPHENSON

We were kind of spotty in our last game; fortunately a few of the guys stepped up. It's just another...
ED STEPHENSON

That's the whole point of the increase in our schedule this year, to give us that second opportunity...
ED STEPHENSON

We're gonna have to work real hard starting Monday. We really have to improve every week. I thought ...
ED STEPHENSON

It's a great win for our program, it's a milestone for us. We play a very difficult schedule early, ...
ED STEPHENSON

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human bein...
NEAL STEPHENSON

All the Chinese people Richard had ever met had been sophisticated urbanites, so he had been half ex...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong ass...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Work as hard with your internal customers as you do with outside suppliers to establish long-term re...
JANICE STEPHENSON

Getting buy-in was a hard sell.
JANICE STEPHENSON

Maybe we can even finish the story of white deer and its sad ending and read it to children. It woul...
JANICE STEPHENSON

I'm devastated, just devastated. Never in my wildest dreams did I think anyone in the town of Garner...
JANICE STEPHENSON

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the ...
NEAL STEPHENSON

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will ...
NEAL STEPHENSON

He accepts his role because he knows that's what we need to do to win. The main thing which separate...
JACK STEPHENSON

My sophomores played really well tonight. They stepped it up and played very, very well. Of course, ...
JACK STEPHENSON

I don't think there was any way it was going to change. There's too much history to this district fo...
JACK STEPHENSON

(The Cougars) shot the ball very well and we didn't. They got us in foul trouble early. When Marcus ...
JACK STEPHENSON

Explain this game to me. Last night we went 2-for-24 from the 3 and (Friday) we made 11 threes. We m...
JACK STEPHENSON

I've got some wonderful kids. We'll respond and come back and play well. You're going to see a great...
JACK STEPHENSON

These things do happen but it's just one game. We're still 14-2.
JACK STEPHENSON

(The Rebels) were hurting as bad as we were. We had a 15-point lead and did some silly things.
JACK STEPHENSON

They played awful hard. They're a lot better that I thought they would be. They shot the ball well.
JACK STEPHENSON

I think our guys kind of got where we played to keep from losing than playing to win. But it showed ...
JACK STEPHENSON

Magical?" "Non." "Magnificent?" "Don't be absurd." "Less bleak than anything else we have seen?" "No...
NEAL STEPHENSON

This is a very exciting time for us. And the pickup on the [growth] curve is still ahead of us.
HUGO STEPHENSON

This is a very exciting time for us. And the pickup on the (growth) curve is still ahead of us.
HUGO STEPHENSON

Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worsh...
NEAL STEPHENSON

He had come home late with take-out Thai and slammed into the sofa and tried to watch a movie, but k...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Maybe we should go back and get their guns,” Marlon suggested. “That’s how it would work in a ...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Not that any of the sysadmin’s knowledge and skills were applicable here.

The psycholog...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available s...
NEAL STEPHENSON

She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of he...
NEAL STEPHENSON

There was no way that these guys were going to let a bleeding, barefoot woman simply wander off alon...
NEAL STEPHENSON

Most of the people around the entrance were, of course, bellhops and taxi drivers. Guests went in an...
NEAL STEPHENSON

We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

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