Ed Case Quotes

I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.

I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

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

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

You really need to believe that you are on to something important.

Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.

I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation

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

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness

[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.

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

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

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

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.

At AOL, we thought the killer app was people

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...

I have lost confidence in myself.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

Morality negates life.

...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.

No ghosts need

Dear Mom, I won't be home this weekend because I'm wanted for treason and I have to clear my name. Also, I took the last Sprite from the fridge.Love, Steve

This was so unfunny, Steve had to laugh.

I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.

This is where I belong. This is what I have always dreamt of.

Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed.

The acquisition of knowledge has become too intimidating a prospect for them, so they shun it in favour of faith.

So far, we have only seen a glimpse of the human possibilities.

Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.

Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious, " said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.

The passionate hear touches the sky. The meditative mind enters it.

The passionate heart touches the sky. The meditative mind enters it.

Through contemplation we become a reflection of the soul rather than the head. And, in the soul dwells a greater mind.

Like war, love - all kinds of love - is for men who can take it. If they dare.

He won’t stop the war until you give him the peace prize.