Esther Dyson Quotes

United States, Scientist
July 14, 1951

Esther Dyson is a Swiss-born American journalist, author, businesswoman, investor, commentator and philanthropist. She is a leading angel investor focused on breakthrough efficacy in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space. Dyson is currently focusing her career on health[9] and continues to invest in health and technology startups

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

Esther Dyson
- Home
- Environment
- Design
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

Esther Dyson

Always make new mistakes.

Esther Dyson
- Mistakes
I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.

Esther Dyson
- Law
- Vote
- Taxes
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Esther Dyson
I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Esther Dyson
- Board
- Joined
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Esther Dyson
Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.

Esther Dyson
- Money
- Advice
- Problems