Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person. — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom. — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner,… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
I became the research department for a firm on Wall Street and eventually started working on the newsletter 'Release 1.0,' which I… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
“The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To Be Loner, You… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The Internet is an incredible business tool. First of all, the Internet/the cell phone - the cell phone is just another way… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Internet becoming accessible everywhere, whether it was Wi-Fi at work, on your cell phone as you traveled. People had it at home… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities. — Esther Dyson Copy Share
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first. — Esther Dyson Copy Share
People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
The challenge of ensuring adequate, nutrient-rich food for an expanding global population is a daunting one, especially given constraints on key resources like water… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
Anyone will tell you if you want to run a business, you need to monitor costs and revenues. In the same manner, if you… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future. — Esther Dyson Copy Share
Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you.… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
“Listen more than you talk. Whatever the context, people will think you’re smarter.” — Esther Dyson Copy Share
I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things… — Esther Dyson Copy Share
