Esther Dyson Quotes

I wouldn't be anywhere without the Internet.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.

The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.