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 DysonWhen I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.
Esther DysonThe great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you. And that, combined with the American spirit, I think, is going to help us come out of the recession faster than other countries. And I think it's going to help Africa come out of, you know, a century of slump.
Esther DysonWe had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would have things manufactured in China, but we would do the design, we would do the creative stuff.And now what we have done is, we have forgotten that that's what we wanted, and we're making the intellectual stuff more and more free. And, so, we're sort of left with less and less.
Esther Dyson