Virginia Postrel Quotes

The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in which the government played a significant role. That role was, however, far more subtle than the plans of industrial policy gurus or techno-boosting politicians.

Virginia Postrel

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Author Biography

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

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Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.'

Jill Scott

BlessingAmazingMeMomPowerful

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

John Lewis

DogBirdHunterWhoGets

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Robert Hughes

GossipDopeInsideVatican

You must never underestimate your opposition.

John Scarlett

YouUnderestimateNeverOpposition

It is always a good feeling to score the first goal in a new stadium.

Alvaro Morata

GoodFeelingGoalNewFirstAlways

Women are often paid far less than men, while they also perform most of the world's unpaid care work.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

WorkWomenMenWorldCarePaid

We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.

Jared Polis

ChangeProgressConsequencesStop

Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

Diane Greene

DirectionGoogleSimilaritiesSystem

I got fired - November 8, 1979. And all of a sudden, I got a call, two weeks later, about doing a game on ESPN. And I truly said - Scotty Connal, the head of ESPN production at the time, was the guy that called me - I said, 'Man, ESPN sounds like a disease. What is ESPN? I know nothing about it, never heard of it.'

Dick Vitale

TimeManMeGameDoingKnow

The 'Times' is understood to be almost the unofficial biographer of the country, in some strange way to be printing a kind of quasi-neutral truth or even, in some people's minds, slightly center-left version of reality.

David Shields

TruthPeopleRealityCountryKind

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

Chief Joseph

GreatMenWhiteYoungCattleClaim

It feels great to be home, great to be back as a part of the community.

Brian Jordan

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