133 Quotes by Esther Dyson

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

Dyson's Law: Do ask; don't lie.

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.

I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared ... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.

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.

People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.

The increasing incidence of reporting of lost private personal records poses a serious threat to consumer confidence -- and to vendor profits. Yet it is the right thing to do because it is forcing companies to clean up their acts.

Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.