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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• 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

• One of the things that's funniest about the entertainment industry and comedy is that people go 'Oh, you're great, but I don't know what to do with you.' The great thing about the Internet is that nobody has to figure out what to do with you. You can figure out what to do with you, and you can say, 'I made this thing, and I'm going to put it out, and now if people want to come see me and buy things from me they can.'

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Internet

• I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • I Believe
  • Comedian
  • Scripts

• To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Black
  • Values
  • Diversity

• But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Honor
  • Security

• Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!-But time goes on, and will, unheeding,Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn,And the wild days set true hearts bleeding.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Time
  • True
  • Eyes

• 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