Virginia Postrel Quotes

To innovate is not to reform.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

I like to try new stuff and experiment. That's why I think it's entertaining to watch my matches, because you never know what I'm going to do, and you see things that you've never seen before.

If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.