Quotes About Trends

I can't help feeling that the good books were purchased because they were talked of as being popular, and the trash was bought because it suited best.

As the Economist points out, "If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.

If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.

Life gets a little trickier when we are doing our regression analysis (or other forms of statistical inference) with a small sample of data.

Nuestra creciente riqueza nos ha permitido dejar de ser cazadores de gangas que adquieren productos de marca (o incluso sin marca), para convertirnos en miniexpertos y permitirnos miles de pequeños caprichos que nos distinguen de los demás. Adoptamos una serie de nuevas conductas de compra que se describen con palabras de significado opuesto, como «personalización en serie», «exclusividad masiva». Todas van en la misma dirección: más largas colas.

Individualmente, ninguna de estas canciones es popular, pero hay tantas que colectivamente representan un mercado sustancial.

Los costes de acceso a esos nichos están bajando notablemente.

In the atoms economy, which is to say most of the stuff around us, things tend to get more expensive over time. But in the bits economy, which is the online world, things get cheaper. The atoms economy is inflationary, while the bits economy is deflationary.

With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.

I know more about 'Moana' and 'Coco' these days than I do about anything hip and cool like 'Black Mirror'.

I've been known to spend an afternoon on ASOS.com. There's just so much on there, and I can't stand not seeing all the new arrivals just in case I miss out.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.

I like to mix influences from different eras, like maybe '70s bell-bottoms, something fun from the '80s, or a bit of '90s grunge.

Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.

Advertisers want to get to mobile, and they don't want banner ads.

Bizarrely, a lot of the innovations in free-to-play are coming out of the PC space rather than the mobile space.

He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.

The pop market is a very fickle market, and that's why for me to go into the teeny-pop, 'TRL' mode, it's not really for me.

I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14, and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though.

When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.

In a sense, there are as many forecasting methods as there are forecasters. But I would argue that most projections are derived from two major methods: macro-econometric models and eclectic judgment.

The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died.