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MICHAEL DYSON I just want to keep playing as I have been doing and shooting sub-par rounds. I think if one of us s... SIMON DYSON It's nice to see our old cars here. There's no one better to give some feedback on the car than Andy... CHRIS DYSON Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test... GEORGE DYSON The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carb... FREEMAN DYSON The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come ... FREEMAN DYSON I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so impo... FREEMAN DYSON Life always promises to give the world a person to take away everything bad. ELOISE DYSON Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that ... GEORGE DYSON Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we
are different that ea... BRIAN DYSON A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha... FREEMAN DYSON We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most ... FREEMAN DYSON Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them. FREEMAN DYSON I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But ... ESTHER DYSON The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a c... FREEMAN DYSON Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again... ESTHER DYSON I don't know a single person who is not immersed in the digital universe. Even people who are st... GEORGE DYSON Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. FREEMAN DYSON We're trying to reach out to users - not just from start-ups, but also the corporate types. ESTHER DYSON There are also computers with Windows that stick. ESTHER DYSON Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enha... ESTHER DYSON The internet has many fathers but he's one of the main ones. He's an evangelist to the internet comm... ESTHER DYSON I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful ap... FREEMAN DYSON You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you thi... FREEMAN DYSON The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. FREEMAN DYSON I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day. FREEMAN DYSON It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi... FREEMAN DYSON The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To... ESTHER DYSON It's a cultural phenomenon. So, saying it's a cartoon doesn't dismiss it, doesn't denigrate it, it e... MICHAEL DYSON Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology ... ESTHER DYSON As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom. ESTHER DYSON A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell. ESTHER DYSON I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago. ESTHER DYSON In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get ... ESTHER DYSON In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little prog... ESTHER DYSON There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadv... ESTHER DYSON Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities. ESTHER DYSON I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is... ESTHER DYSON I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of hi... ESTHER DYSON Wherever you grow up, you think of it as normal. GEORGE DYSON The eagle was one of the best shots I have ever hit. I had 242 yards to the flag, and I hit a 5-wood... SIMON DYSON I think he is one of the best up-and-coming players I have seen. It won't be long before he is sat h... SIMON DYSON It's been a long time coming. A couple of years ago I thought it might never happen, but this year I... SIMON DYSON Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as t... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I f... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-n... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American pr... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves u... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, u... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON With the evolution of social media that includes blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, who and how inform... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enor... FREEMAN JOHN DYSON He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rap... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his hero... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you g... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words &... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone dar... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and Go... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation;... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Ain't no gay filter for the cash. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leader... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON My father was not going to let me take over the business just because I was his son. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifyin... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day,... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jack... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply out... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and r... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fat... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON