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. ”

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. ”

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

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information. ”

My greatest vulnerability is that I'm not 'normal.' I'm not married, I don't have children. It's something I feel defensive about. ”

Since I was 18, I have swum for 50 minutes every day, missing less than one day a year except for a two-week stint when I was training as a cosmonaut in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in March 2009. ”

I have had the same apartment in New York City for almost 40 years but have actually lived in it for less than half of that time, owing to a busy travel schedule. ”

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom. ”

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person. ”

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. ”