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.

Esther Dyson

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

Esther Dyson

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

Esther Dyson

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.

Esther Dyson

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

Esther Dyson

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

Esther Dyson

The best entrepreneurs have a sense of purpose that drives them.

Esther Dyson

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

Esther Dyson

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.

Esther Dyson

I think there are too many start-ups and not enough real companies.

Esther Dyson

You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.

Esther Dyson

My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.

Esther Dyson

Anyone will tell you if you want to run a business, you need to monitor costs and revenues. In the same manner, if you want to run your body, you need to monitor intake and returns. It's in your best interest.

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

The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.

Esther Dyson

It offends me when people do useless work.

Esther Dyson

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

Esther Dyson

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

Esther Dyson

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

Esther Dyson

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

Esther Dyson

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.

Esther Dyson