Ed Case Quotes

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I like to think that I'm not old yet.

Everyone has to kind of fend for themselves.

no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

Have you ever seen innovation where someone didn’t take a risk?

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

Anything is better than stagnation.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

History never repeats itself, historians do.

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

I tried to have more than one emotion on the record.

We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.

At AOL, we thought the killer app was people

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!

I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.

Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.

I think I have a lot of empathy for animals and nature in general. Those things just make me comfortable. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, around a lot of animals. I feel for them.

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.

I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen