Esther Dyson

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

— Esther Dyson

Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff;…

— Esther Dyson

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…

— Esther Dyson

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want…

— Esther Dyson

The challenge of ensuring adequate, nutrient-rich food for an expanding global population is a daunting one, especially given constraints on key resources…

— Esther Dyson

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…

— Esther Dyson

Anyone will tell you if you want to run a business, you need to monitor costs and revenues. In the same manner,…

— Esther Dyson

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not…

— Esther Dyson

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge…

— Esther Dyson

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

— Esther Dyson

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool…

— Esther Dyson

The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to…

— Esther Dyson

“Listen more than you talk. Whatever the context, people will think you’re smarter.”

— Esther Dyson

I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors -…

— Esther Dyson

We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would…

— Esther Dyson

Summer is conference season - a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries.

— Esther Dyson

Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

— Esther Dyson

My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable…

— Esther Dyson

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our…

— Esther Dyson

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.

— Esther Dyson

The best entrepreneurs have a sense of purpose that drives them.

— Esther Dyson

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

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…

— Esther Dyson

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

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be…

— Esther Dyson