Esther Dyson Quotes About Internet

Quotes about: Internet

• 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 more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

  Esther Dyson

  Addiction, Alcohol, Loner

• Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

  Esther Dyson

  Real, Cyberspace, World

• I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

  Esther Dyson

  Believe, Technology, Citizens

• 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.

  Esther Dyson

  Government, Self, Organization

  "Lots of action on the Net -- but not much change" by Stewart Deck, cnn.com. May 28, 1998.

• The Internet is an incredible business tool. First of all, the Internet/the cell phone - the cell phone is just another way to get at it - I think is having a huge impact in Africa most particularly, where it enables people - suddenly, they know crop prices. They can communicate. It makes their lives more efficient.

  Esther Dyson

  Thinking, Impact, Phones

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 03, 2010.

• As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

  Esther Dyson

  Government, Long, Internet

  "Lots of action on the Net -- but not much change" by Stewart Deck, cnn.com. May 28, 1998.

• It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.

  Esther Dyson

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

• Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.

  Esther Dyson

  Powerful, People, Advice

• The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you. And that, combined with the American spirit, I think, is going to help us come out of the recession faster than other countries. And I think it's going to help Africa come out of, you know, a century of slump.

  Esther Dyson

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

• No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

  Esther Dyson

  Benefits, World, Internet

• Internet becoming accessible everywhere, whether it was Wi-Fi at work, on your cell phone as you traveled. People had it at home with broadband. There was a big change.It used to be people used the Internet primarily at work, because that's where they had a good connection. Now they're using it at home. And the second big change is, they used it not just to get information, but to communicate with one another. And, so, it became not simply an information exchange, but a personal exchange, a communication mechanism.

  Esther Dyson

  Communication, Home, Phones

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

• 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 think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

  Esther Dyson

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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

  Esther Dyson

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

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