Esther Dyson Quotes - Page 2

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• I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

  Esther Dyson

  Real, Years, Two

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

  Esther Dyson

  Integrity, Believe, Thinking

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

  Esther Dyson

  Views, Long, Intellectual

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• I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.

  Esther Dyson

  Thinking, Attention, Scarcity

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.

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  Thinking, Law, Guy

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• People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

  Esther Dyson

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.

  Esther Dyson

  Junk, Filters, Online

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• We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things manufactured in China, but we would do the design, we would do the creative stuff.And now what we have done is, we have forgotten that that's what we wanted, and we're making the intellectual stuff more and more free. And, so, we're sort of left with less and less.

  Esther Dyson

  Country, Design, Creative

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• People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.

  Esther Dyson

  People, Choices, Confusing

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

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• 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.

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• The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

  Esther Dyson

  Home, Design, Community

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• If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

  Esther Dyson

  Past, Stuff, Recommendations

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

  Esther Dyson

  Nice, Eyebrows, Killers

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

  Esther Dyson

  Rights, Government, Liberty

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• 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 getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

  Esther Dyson

  Stupid, Law, People

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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

  Esther Dyson

  Responsibility, Liberty, Turns

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• 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 lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

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  Father, Nice, People

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• 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 got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

  Esther Dyson

  Russia, People, Effort

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• 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 that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

  Esther Dyson

  Excess, Matter, Disgusting

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• 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.

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• Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

  Esther Dyson

  Listening To Others, Visionaries, Way

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• 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.

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  Powerful, People, Advice

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• Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

  Esther Dyson

  Economy, Market Economy, Understood

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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