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...
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We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board.
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It's sad. The kids are growing up. They've lost youth and innocence. Now they have to start being grown-ups and playing at least to some extent by grown-up rules.
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We try to reflect Internet opinion and not go off half-cocked.
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Always make new mistakes.
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It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
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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 the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.
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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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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.
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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.
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Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.