#u

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

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

#assume #assumption #certainly #coat #crook

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

There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#car #enjoy #everything #go #i

The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#finish #human #humans #important #important thing

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

#certainly #disgusting #especially #excess #get

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-great-gatsby #beauty

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. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#bunch #businesses #everybody #fair #guys

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. ↗

— John Eaton

#first #i #i think #live #live performances

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#important #journalist #scepticism #scientist