Esther Dyson

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

#idolatry #internet #technology #internet

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#corollary #freedom #generate #how #imposing

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. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#always #businesses #certainly #first #going

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#hell #paradise #worker

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

— Esther Dyson

#freedom #government #internet #jump #long

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 technology first. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#common #common sense #doing #enhance #first

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

#dead #intellectual #intellectual property #live #live performance

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

— Esther Dyson

#better #economy #having #i #liked

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#before #better #means #people #perfect

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#i #institute #joined #santa