The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.
Esther DysonI would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.
Esther DysonI 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 DysonAs long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
Esther DysonI 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 DysonThe inner sort of consumer identity got the best of people. And everybody just wants things for free. And that's created this strange kind of cheapness to everything, where everything becomes throwaway. And people, I think, have started to undervalue things, maybe because there's too much, maybe because it's too easy to make, but I think mostly just because, somehow, that's the pattern that got set. And I think that's regrettable.
Esther Dyson