Steve Case Quotes & Sayings

“You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.”

“It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.”

“And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.”

“I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.”

“I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.”

“For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.”

“So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.”

“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.”

“Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.”

“The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.”