Virginia Postrel

“Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus.”

“On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.”

“Neon signs don't consume much power, but they look like they do. A cousin of fluorescent lighting, neon is actually quite energy efficient. A neon tube glows coolly when high-voltage, low-am...”

“Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can u...”

“The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven tr...”