Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson
Esther Dysonis a Swiss-born American journalist, author, businesswoman, investor, commentator and philanthropist. She is a leading angel investor focused on breakthrough efficacy in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space. Dyson is currently focusing her career on production of health and continues to invest in health and technology startups. She is the founder of HICCup...
government rights liberty
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.
government long internet
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
simple order use
It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.
views long intellectual
From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
talking space guy
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 talking about starting businesses.
nice eyebrows crooks
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.
kids wrinkles students
When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.
junk filters online
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.
listening-to-others visionaries way
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.
world benefits internet
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.
economy market-economy understood
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
technology phones cells
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.
technology people needs
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 led a little too much.
american-scientist days free government importance press rather saying simply thinking
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 press without a government than a government without a free press.