Quotes About Trends

Insecure, ill-dressed chaos theorist desires intelligent, insightful, incandescent trends researcher. Must be SC.

I picked out F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair and a couple of mysteries, which always have simple, solvable problems like How did the murderer get into the locked room? instead of hard ones like What causes trends? and What did I do to deserve Flip? and then went over to the eight hundreds.

Since I spend my working days studying trends, many of which are downright disgusting, I feel it's my duty after work to encourage the trends I'd like to see catch on, like signaling before you change lanes, and chocolate cheesecake. And reading. Also

There's always been narcotics. But people don't just up and decide to dope theirselves. By the millions.

Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year

The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year," he noted. "There is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least ten years.

One aspect of innovation is inventing new devices; another is inventing popular ways to use these devices.

In one generation, young men have gone from 61 percent of college degree recipients to a projected 39 percent; young women, from 39 percent to a projected 61 percent.

The second way we lose the habit of truth is by refusing to think clearly when damaging cultural trends become political orthodoxies. The last thing too many people want is to be seen as retrograde in their views when the cost may be social exile. The same-sex marriage debate was, and remains, a classic case.

There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike.

The genius of free human beings is that, given responsibility, they join together to take care of each other—to be their brothers' keepers when their brother needs help. The triumph of an earlier America was that it had set all the right trends in motion, at a time when the world was first coming out of millennia of poverty into an era of plenty. The tragedy of contemporary America is that it abandoned that course. Libertarians want to return to it.

Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

Aperitifs, digestifs, and cocktails are remarkably fashion-sensitive and have the same ups and downs in popularity as hemlines.

The age of pumpkin spice is over — the time of the peppermint mocha has come.

In general, they refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

Today the prevailing fad is vitamins, yesterday it was appendicitis operations, Paderewski's minuet, or the ouija board.

Advertising is only another form of statistics.