Esther Dyson Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

  Esther Dyson

  Believe, Technology, Citizens

• Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

  Esther Dyson

  Thinking, Technology, Common Sense

• 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

  Technology, May, Firsts

• Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

  Esther Dyson

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

• Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

  Esther Dyson

  Technology, Perfect, World

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

• People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

  Esther Dyson

  Technology, People, Needs

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour", www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

• People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

  Esther Dyson

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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