But there is a corollary to freedom and thats personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. – Esther Dyson
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we dont expect the world that were familiar with to be perfect. – Esther Dyson
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. – Esther Dyson
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
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence. – Benjamin Disraeli