Virginia Postrel Quotes

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

You can never plan the future by the past.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

We need to look to the future. You can't come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There's no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.

All progress is experimental.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life.