Esther Dyson

“In this the age of concern over privacy invasion and surveillance and manipulation, people will start to realize that there is no way to avoid being manipulated by other people, governments, marketers, and the like.”

“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.”

“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 became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.”

“The most interesting lessons often lie in the mundane - those aspects of everyday life that locals take for granted and tourists tend to overlook.”

“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.”

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

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

“I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.”

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

“I became the research department for a firm on Wall Street and eventually started working on the newsletter 'Release 1.0,' which I ran for 25 years. That was how I learned all about PCs and the Internet.”

“My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“It offends me when people do useless work.”

“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.”

“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.”

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