133 Quotes by Esther Dyson

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.

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.

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

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.

We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board.

Our job is not simply to accredit registrars. It's to make sure the test works,

Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age

That was when I decided that I was going to keep doing this as half of what I was doing - just somehow try to foster Silicon Valley in Eastern Europe.