Esther Dyson Quotes
Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
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Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.
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I didn't see it coming at all. I just wanted to have this new experience with this team of Danny Boyle, Christian (Colson) and Simon (Beaufoy). It was like an excursion for me from my normal routine and the Indian movies I do and that helped.
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The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.
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There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.
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Yesterday I was clever, so I changed the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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The best vaccine imaginable is only valuable to the extent we get it to everyone who needs it.
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I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.
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In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.
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A drawing has never killed anyone.
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Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.
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The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
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Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
