Esther Dyson

Businesswoman

1951-07-14

Quotes by Esther Dyson

• The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To Be Loner, You Can Be More Alone and if You Want to Connect , It Makes Easier to Connect.

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• The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To Be Loner, You Can Be More Alone and if You Want to Connect , It Makes Easier to Connect.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes.

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• Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

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• That's really why I want to go to space - I want to be weightless for so long that it gets boring.

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• 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.

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• I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

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