Esther Dyson Quotes

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.

Esther Dyson

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• Internet
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• I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

  

  Gary Frank
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Funny
  • Die

• I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, 'This is totally different.' And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Different
  • Mistake

• There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Internet

• To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Want
  • Man

• We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Today
  • Internet

• One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Problems
  • Internet
  • Times

• The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Place
  • Internet
  • Reach

• The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• That's what I love about the Internet. Even if it's small-scale and you're just posting on a forum, that's an uncensored expression. That's what I love.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • You
  • Small

• I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Love
  • Free

• Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • People
  • Together
  • Friend

• True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • True
  • Mistake
  • Deep

• The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Mistake

• You might have two years probation and do good for a whole year, and you make one mistake, and you got to start over.

  

  Rakim Hasheem Allen
  • Good
  • Mistake

• Every time you feel entitled, you're making a mistake.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Time
  • Mistake

• Getting signed shouldn't be the point. I made that mistake early on and I think a lot of people do. It's not something you should rush into. I think I'm actually lucky that when I went to visit labels when I was 20 years old and played and they thought I wasn't ready, it was probably a good thing because I wasn't ready. I didn't know what I was getting intoat the time. I mean, you never know exactly what you're getting into. There's a lot of stuff that's going on right now that's new to me but there's also a lot that I'm lucky to know how to handle.

  

  Ari Hest
  • Mistake
  • Ready
  • Labels

• I'm sure that a lot of women and men feel differently about it, but for me this isn't about being the girl in the band... it's just about being IN the band, if that makes sense? We're trying to keep it in a pure and genuine place for us and not break it down to gender, because it's just a bit boring and obvious isn't it?

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Girl

• There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Country
  • Family
  • Home

• The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

  

  Amy Alcott

• I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Mistake
  • Internet
  • Separating