Esther Dyson Quotes

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

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• I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Inspiring

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mistake

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • You
  • Talk

• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Teacher

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• I can't cook to save my life.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Love
  • Why

• I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Children
  • High
  • Value

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Want
  • Face
  • Decency

• I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Women
  • Story
  • Young

• The most important effects of Christianity went out from it without the intention of the Church, or even against its will.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Important
  • Church

• I don’t know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Business

• The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • American
  • War
  • Fool

• It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • She

• Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, oftentimes, bluffing.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Up
  • Exercise

• I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• I came to the UFC to fight with top-level fighters and become the undisputed, undefeated champion. This is my goal.

  

  Khabib Nurmagomedov
  • Champion

• We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Soul
  • Earth

• The fall, the spring, whenever people want us to come, we'll come.

  

  Dennis Lyxzén AC4
  • People
  • Whenever

• People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • People
  • Technology
  • Understand