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Esther Dyson
American
Businesswoman
Born:
Jul 14
,
1951
Became
Government
Me
People
Think
You
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What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
Esther Dyson
Government
Saying
Free
Free Press
Thinking
Press
About
Rather
More
More And More
He
Simply
Days
Importance
Without
Than
Transparency
Jefferson
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson
Change
People
Better
Before
Perfect
Perfect People
Want
Means
Things
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.
Esther Dyson
Work
Integrity
Financial
Important
Control
Believe
Disposition
Think
Kind
Moral
Proper
Stuff
Issue
His
Than
Less
Works
Creator
Her
Actually
Right
Copyright
The most interesting lessons often lie in the mundane - those aspects of everyday life that locals take for granted and tourists tend to overlook.
Esther Dyson
Life
Lie
Take For Granted
Everyday Life
Everyday
Those
Tend
Take
Tourists
Most
Overlook
Often
Interesting
Aspects
Granted
Lessons
Mundane
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
Esther Dyson
Service
Property
Business
Long
Live
Point
Point Of View
Performance
Dead
Intellectual
Overstate
Intellectual Property
Process
View
Live Performance
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.
Esther Dyson
Government
Rights
Everybody
Liberties
Evolution
Stay
Civil
Civil Liberties
General
Take
Hackers
Well
Became
Began
Frontier
Then
Electronic
Foundation
Away
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
Technology
First
Online
Always
Going
May
Certainly
Businesses
Profitable
There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.
Esther Dyson
You
People
Stupid
Honestly
Spend
Way
Laws
Disadvantage
Almost
Because
Around
Doing
Huge
Huge Amounts
Effort
Getting
Taxes
Paying
Amount
In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.
Esther Dyson
Space
Three
Met
Everybody
Those
About
Guys
Weeks
Fair
Talking
Were
Bunch
Just
Little
Who
Businesses
Starting
Programmers
I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.
Esther Dyson
Time
You
Business
Seen
Matters
Telecom
Excess
Learned
Get
Same
Same Time
Disgusting
Ignore
Certainly
Washington
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.
Esther Dyson
Government
Responsibilities
Would
See
Rather
Individuals
Imposed
Than
Them
Much
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
Vote
Law
Think
Kind
Presumption
Guy
He
Know
Steve
Forbes
Reveal
Taxes
Should
Paid
Who
Right
Thing
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
Esther Dyson
Free
Three
Market
Free Market
Became
Real
Years
Years Ago
Than
Fanatic
Less
Even
Now
Two
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
Esther Dyson
Me
You
Woman
Money
Crook
Nice
Assume
Honestly
Assumption
Fur
Killer
Russians
She
Make
Up
American
Just
Certainly
Coat
Shows
As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
Esther Dyson
Government
Freedom
You
Internet
Long
Come
Jump
Shoot
Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.
Esther Dyson
You
Technology
First
Sense
Think
About
How
Leave
Doing
Common
Hold
Common Sense
Your
Enhance
You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.
Esther Dyson
You
World
Politician
President
Because
Fix
Represent
Movement
Want
Should
My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.
Esther Dyson
Health
Business
People
Ambition
Own
Out
How
Turn
Create
Figure
Help
Help People
Profitable
Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes.
Esther Dyson
You
Smart
First
Mistakes
Tricky
Totally
Something
New
Learn
Doing
Person
Second
The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.
Esther Dyson
You
People
Challenge
Free
Email
Stuff
Becomes
Items
Send
List
Your
Normal people with normal lives are not going to ask for sugar-free yogurt. They just take the stuff with sugar in it.
Esther Dyson
People
Sugar
Take
Stuff
Normal
Normal People
Yogurt
Going
Just
Ask
Lives
Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.
Esther Dyson
People
Increasingly
Indeed
Though
Online
Retain
Learn
Person
Interact
Engage
Fundamental
Need
I have had the same apartment in New York City for almost 40 years but have actually lived in it for less than half of that time, owing to a busy travel schedule.
Esther Dyson
Time
Travel
Half
Busy
City
Schedule
Had
Almost
New
Years
Than
Owing
York
Same
New York
New York City
Apartment
Less
Lived
Actually
My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.
Esther Dyson
Life
My Life
Strips
Investing
Stuff
New
Like
Comic
Comic Strips
New Stuff
Which
Really
Series
Why
Since I was 18, I have swum for 50 minutes every day, missing less than one day a year except for a two-week stint when I was training as a cosmonaut in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in March 2009.
Esther Dyson
Day
Every Day
Training
Year
Every
One Day
Minutes
Except
Since
Missing
Than
Less
March
My greatest vulnerability is that I'm not 'normal.' I'm not married, I don't have children. It's something I feel defensive about.
Esther Dyson
Defensive
Married
About
Something
Feel
Vulnerability
Greatest
Normal
Children
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