Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
Virginia PostrelGlamour is translucent โ not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesnโt give us a completely clear picture.
Virginia PostrelEuropean nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
Virginia PostrelAesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.
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