As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
Esther DysonHaving seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
Esther DysonPeople still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.
Esther DysonNo system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
Esther DysonOwning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.
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