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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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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There are also computers with Windows that stick.
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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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We will have higher prices for better services and lower prices for less quality.
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We try to reflect Internet opinion and not go off half-cocked.
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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 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.
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Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age
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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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Our job is not simply to accredit registrars. It's to make sure the test works,
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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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From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
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What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.