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Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.
— Virginia Postrel
The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.
— Virginia Postrel
Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.
— Virginia Postrel
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.
— Virginia Postrel
On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.
— Virginia Postrel
Glamour doesn't just happen, people don't wake up in the morning glamorous.
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Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.
— Virginia Postrel
Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.
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The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.
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Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
— Virginia Postrel
Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.
— Virginia Postrel
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.
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I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.
— Virginia Postrel
The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities.
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Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
— Virginia Postrel
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.
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In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.
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The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
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By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
— Virginia Postrel
Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.
— Virginia Postrel
Glamour is translucent - not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn't give us a completely clear picture.
— Virginia Postrel
Storage problems make neon signs the most ephemeral of commercial arts.
— Virginia Postrel
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.
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Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
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A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.
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Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.
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The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
— Virginia Postrel