Esther Dyson Quotes

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• The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be…
• Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to…
• Always make new mistakes.
• I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial…
• Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
• 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.
• The best investor is your customer.
• It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you…
• The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.
• From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
• In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was…
• And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me,…
• As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
• Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay…
• 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 effort…
• Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
• Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect…
• Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are…
• In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you…
• I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and…

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