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

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
The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

Esther Dyson

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

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.

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- Money
- Advice
- Problems
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.

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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.

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- Home
- Environment
- Design
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.

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- Law
- Vote
- Taxes
I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Esther Dyson
- Board
- Joined