Esther Dyson Quotes

I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

Esther Dyson

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• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Thought
  • Criticism
  • Romantics

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Different
  • Circumstances

• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue

• I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Doing
  • Loved
  • Building

• The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Idea

• I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  

  Florence King
  • Home
  • Rather
  • My Own

• Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

  

  Sallust
  • Up
  • Great
  • Just

• You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Universe
  • Years

• I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Feel

• I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

  

  La India
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Sadness

• When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Work
  • Lost

• There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

  

  Xenophanes
  • God
  • Men
  • Mind

• Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Simplicity

• So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Women
  • Violence

• Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Morning

• There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

  

  Bjork
  • Up

• Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Country
  • Freedom

• When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

  

  Paul Wesley
  • Life

• My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Expectation

• The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death.

  

  Plato
  • Constitution
  • Citizens
  • Doctor

• I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Technology
  • I Believe
  • Policy