Virginia Postrel Quotes

Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad because they're monopolies (even where they are no longer legally exclusive) and because the government policies that made them monopolies rewarded lobbying over customer service.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

ServiceGovernmentCustomerMedia

I don't mind doing the Who tours when they come along but I want to get out there and play.

John Entwistle

MindDoingPlayWantOutGet

No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.

John L. Flannery

GoodFeel GoodSayingFeelLookGo

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

John Lyly

GoodCompanionWagonMerry

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

Jeff Greenfield

MeThinkVotingChoicePersonal

People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

Amanda Palmer

StarsPeopleMusiciansGoalRock

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

Stefano Gabbana

FashionCustomerTwoSystemThings

A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs.

Sia

TimeWritingPopSongsRelateAbout

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

Trinny Woodall

MeFashionClothesWorthHouseShe

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

Tom Stoppard

MyselfAnimalThinkIntellectual

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

Ronald Ross

MeSmallGrowingBeliefWhat IfShe

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

Michael K. Powell

InnovationInternetOpenProtection

I left London in 1992, but I'm there 3-4 times a year, and love visiting.

Jonathan Ive

LoveYearLondonLeftVisiting

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