Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson
Esther Dysonis a Swiss-born American journalist, author, businesswoman, investor, commentator and philanthropist. She is a leading angel investor focused on breakthrough efficacy in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space. Dyson is currently focusing her career on production of health and continues to invest in health and technology startups. She is the founder of HICCup...
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It's a real challenge if you want to take this on, if you want to do it well without destroying a lot of value that's being created.
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But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
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We try to reflect Internet opinion and not go off half-cocked.
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The simple truth is that it will get better, but it won't go back to being what we thought was normal before, ... That was nutty.
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Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.
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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.
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Microsoft's competition -- most of it has been pretty inadequate. I don't see any reason to think that -- with all due respect -- a bunch of government lawyers are going to be any more clever than your average company, let alone Microsoft,
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You have to be a grownup. You have to decide what government should do and not do. And what's its appropriate size and what's its appropriate scale.
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There are also computers with Windows that stick.
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We're trying to reach out to users - not just from start-ups, but also the corporate types.
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There are not going to be giant revelations. We're just telling the truth.
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We will have higher prices for better services and lower prices for less quality.
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It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not. In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.
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It's sad. The kids are growing up. They've lost youth and innocence. Now they have to start being grown-ups and playing at least to some extent by grown-up rules.