American - Businesswoman | July 14, 1951 -
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
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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.
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I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.
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I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.
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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.
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I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
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Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
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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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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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A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.
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I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.
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As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
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