Quotes About Trends

between 1983 and 2001, mistrustfulness increased markedly in the US, the UK and Ireland—three

Few—very few—graduates before the mid-'70s sought out a 'business' education;

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of twenty or thirty years ago," Konrath reports.

College kids today are about 40 per cent lower in empathy14 than their counterparts of twenty or thirty years ago,' Konrath reports. More worrying still, according to Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University,15 is that, during this same period, students' self-reported narcissism levels have, in contrast, gone in the other direction. They've shot through the roof.

It's not even about you. It's just what people like to do online.

These forces are trajectories, not destinies.

we can get the most from the technologies when we "listen" to the direction the technologies lean, and bend our expectations, regulations, and products to these fundamental tendencies within that technology.

Since it is the last scarcity, wherever attention flows, money will follow.

Everything people call fabulous or amazing lasts for about ten minutes before the culture moves on to the next thing.

In terms of per capita income, the bottom half in America is better off. However, in terms of social progress, the average income of the bottom half of the Chinese people is rising much faster, albeit from a lower starting point.

It may be too soon to tell, but extrapolating from current trends indicates that mobility will play an ever more important role in society and economics in the future than today:

There's a world I could do without: public underwear showings. There was a time in my lifetime when you had to open a J.C. Penney catalog to see people in their underwear. Now it's like the national pastime, hanging out in your underwear. I don't see why they have to pay anyone to model it.

Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress.

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability.… Sincerely,

Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability….

So I Lyfted to Home Depot, where I bought random stuff, rope and duct tape, plastic bags, cable ties, and plastic gloves. The girl at the register winked and said she's also a big fan of Fifty Shades and this is what has become of our society.

No cultural habit ever totally fades out of human life. It just loses market share.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.