Quotes About Trends

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

Ponder this: From 1983 to 2008, the number of people in the world with diabetes increased sevenfold, from 35 to 240 million. In just three years, from 2008 to 2011, we added another 110 million diabetics to our global population. Shouldn't the main question we ask be why is this happening? instead of what new drug can we find to treat it?

By the middle of the 1990s, the United States had the smallest and fastest-shrinking middle class among seventeen industrialized nations,[45] and it is hardly new for reports to state today as they do that the U.S. middle class still fails to compete well with those other nations (even though the U.S. wealthy are nearly without parallel).

The 2014 study of the National Research Council found that incarceration continued to rise even while the rate of violent crime decreased.

The main reason that we felt positive was because all of the trends were so negative. This was not just to be stubbornly or rigidly contrarian—because being a true contrarian means not to go slavishly against the grain, but to be always independent in your thinking. It was simply that we and the short-term smart money were operating according to different time frames.

Between 1971 and 2013, Conservative Judaism went from being the denominational home of 41 percent of American Jews to representing only 18 percent. Along the way, the career of Jeffrey Myers would suffer the same fortunes as the movement.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn't a fashion – it's an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be 'passive' – inviting our gaze.

In the 21st century men's tits have not just rivalled but replaced women's as the touchstone of 'sexy' in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.

We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.

There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

Free downloads is something that I like to do its just not as publicised and it is the future of music.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.