"The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation"

Richard Parsons, Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive (Referring to the Civil War American general George Custer who was defeated by Native Americans in a battle dubbed "Custer's Last Stand.")

"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."

Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association Of America, Inc. (in 1982 in testimony to the House of Representatives)