Esther Dyson

I have had the same apartment in New York City for almost 40 years but have actually lived in it for less than half of that time, owing to a busy travel schedule.

You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.

My ambition is to figure out how to help people create their own health and how to turn that into a profitable business.

Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes.

I'm cheap, and so I don't like wasting.

It offends me when people do useless work.

I think there are too many start-ups and not enough real companies.

The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.

Normal people with normal lives are not going to ask for sugar-free yogurt. They just take the stuff with sugar in it.

The challenge of ensuring adequate, nutrient-rich food for an expanding global population is a daunting one, especially given constraints on key resources like water and agricultural land.

Summer is conference season - a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries.

Indeed, though people increasingly learn and interact online, we retain a fundamental need to engage in person.

The best entrepreneurs have a sense of purpose that drives them.

The most interesting lessons often lie in the mundane - those aspects of everyday life that locals take for granted and tourists tend to overlook.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

In this the age of concern over privacy invasion and surveillance and manipulation, people will start to realize that there is no way to avoid being manipulated by other people, governments, marketers, and the like.

My parents are both scientists. They like order.

I became the research department for a firm on Wall Street and eventually started working on the newsletter 'Release 1.0,' which I ran for 25 years. That was how I learned all about PCs and the Internet.

Anyone will tell you if you want to run a business, you need to monitor costs and revenues. In the same manner, if you want to run your body, you need to monitor intake and returns. It's in your best interest.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

My life is like a series of comic strips, which is why I like investing: I really like new stuff.

Since I was 18, I have swum for 50 minutes every day, missing less than one day a year except for a two-week stint when I was training as a cosmonaut in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in March 2009.

My greatest vulnerability is that I'm not 'normal.' I'm not married, I don't have children. It's something I feel defensive about.

That's really why I want to go to space - I want to be weightless for so long that it gets boring.

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.