Jonathan Miller

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Jonathan Miller has been Chairman and CEO of America Online, Inc. (AOL) since 2002. Before joining AOL, Miller was president and chief executive officer of USA Information and Services (USAIS), where he served as chief of the information services unit, in charge of the company's e-commerce properties, including TIcketmaster, Expedia, CitySearch and Match.com.

Earlier, Miller had served as president and chief executive officer of USA Electronic Commerce Solutions, was president and chief executive officer of USA Broadcasting, and worked for Nickelodeon in the mid-1990s, joining as chief executive officer/managing director of Nick UK in 1993 and rising to managing director of Nickelodeon International. Before that, Miller was chief executive of Paramount's first branded international channel, launching the Paramount Comedy Channel in London, and was vice president of programming and NBA entertainment at the National Basketball Association in New York.

Last updated: April 03, 2005.

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"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."

"What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is."

"Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it."

"Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility."