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Esther Dyson

"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."

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"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it."

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Akiroq Brost

"We are the mountains we must cross."

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"It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."

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"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."

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"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."

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"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."

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Akiroq Brost

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

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"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!"

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"It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won."

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Akiroq Brost

"There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us."

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"I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?"

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"A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell."
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"In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses."
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"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."
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"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better."
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"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."
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"In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded."
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"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."
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"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."
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"I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom."
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"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom."
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