Esther Dyson Quotes

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

• Businesses
• Online
• Unprofitable

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • School
  • Career

• Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Interesting
  • Universe
  • Dark

• The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Night
  • Know
  • Mystery

• The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Think
  • Best
  • Politics

• When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Black
  • Evil

• And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Everything
  • Longing
  • Seemed

• Battles are followed by years of famine.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Years
  • Battles
  • Famine

• We were patient. We took good shots. We took shots within rhythm. We did things that we normally practice every day and that is why we were successful.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Rhythm
  • Shots
  • Within

• Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Lord
  • Creator
  • Jew

• Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Reality
  • Politics
  • Economy

• Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software suppliers
  • Software packages

• Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Devil
  • Numbers
  • Majority

• Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • May
  • Sin
  • Guilty

• I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.

  

  Montserrat Caballe
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Careers

• I don't care to dress up except when it is necessary or good for my business.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Dresses
  • Necessary
  • Businesses

• Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Rules
  • Businesses
  • Robes

• 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
  • Businesses
  • Online
  • Unprofitable