Quotes About Trends

I've realized that instead of following the trends, you want to identify the trends but not follow them. It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

Follow your intellectual curiosity over whatever is "hot" right now. If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go, you'll get paid extremely well.

Lo que prefiero, en lugar de las tendencias, es pensar que tengo encomendada una misión. Que trabajo en un problema único que la gente no está resolviendo en ningún otro lugar.

Normalmente nunca quieres formar parte de una tendencia popular. No quieres ser la cuarta empresa que vende comida para mascotas por internet a finales de la década de 1990. No quieres ser la decimosegunda empresa de paneles solares de la última década. Y no quieres ser la enésima empresa de ninguna tendencia en particular.

Así que creo que las tendencias suelen ser cosas que deben evitarse.

Three to five billion new consumers are coming online in the next 6 years. Holy cow, that's extraordinary. What do they need?

It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

Amazon, Netflix, etc., repararon en que, en total, las ventas de todos los productos minoritarios igualaban, y en algunos casos excedían, las ventas de los contados productos más vendidos.

Cualquier cosa de Kevin Kelly, la más reciente es The Inevitable.

What I prefer over trends is a sense of mission. That you are working on a unique problem that people are not solving elsewhere.

Normalmente nunca quieres formar parte de una tendencia popular. No quieres ser la cuarta empresa que vende comida para mascotas por internet a finales de la década de 1990.

We all have our paradigms," I said. "Every generation has different ones. For my generation, it's books with covers. For yours it's selfies and what you ate for lunch and dwarfs doing calisthenics on YouTube.

Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one.

When the Broncos or the Steelers are winning everybody wants defense. When the Rams and Saints are scoring 50 points a game, it seems everybody is looking for a young offensive mind.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.

When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then you start looking at it, and you conclude that humanity is completely doomed. Because what people read is cats and Bieber and celebrity gossip and that stuff.

Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

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

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

There are fads in life and old people indulge things to excess sometimes.

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

I really love fashion, but I feel like the older I get, the more I am drawn to the basic things in my daily life because everything else is so goofy and crazy.