Quotes About Trends

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

With sales stabilizing, we should go back to positive price growth early next year.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

It is, of course, quite impossible to make forecasts about the future except on the hypothetical postulate that in all matters where the nature of changes cannot be definitely foreseen and taken into account, the future is assumed to be a continuance of the past.

East Asia's share of global exports went from 12 percent in 1960 to 31 percent by 2011. The same number in Latin America over the same period declined from 7 percent to 6 percent

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

market history shows that when there's economic blue sky, future returns are low, and when the economy is on the skids, future returns are high;

We tend to extrapolate the recent past indefinitely into the future; in the 1970s, investors thought that inflation would never end, whereas now most people think it will never occur again. The first viewpoint was proven wrong within a few years, and the latter viewpoint most likely will be soon.

Nineties style isn't.

58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. 42% of college students never read another book after college. 80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year. 70% of US adults have not been to a bookstore in the last five years. 57% of new books are not read to completion. Most readers do not get past page 18 in a book they have purchased.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

the basic rules of serious futurology are (a) look for the large trends and analyze how they work, (b) construct models to suggest how different trends may interact, and (c) be alert for countertrends or other factors that might falsify or cut across the predictions suggested by long trends and simple modeling.

It's interesting about diseases, how they peak and tank.

Strange, that Earthpeople always follow one who is not wise, but merely compelling.

the number of dirigibles made per year has not increased according to this pattern. The average number of cats per household has not increased exponentially. This made, briefly, for a fun game. It's not too hard to come up with metrics that have not kept pace with the Great Acceleration. Yet, in the end, this exercise in contrarian thinking only reinforces the point: any set of meaningful measures will reveal the same pattern. Venus

Influencers" succeed in a culture when the masses stop reading and thinking for themselves.

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

I like more streetwear and baggier stuff. I like what Off-White is doing, I like what Fear of God is doing. There's a brand called FourTwoFour out of L.A. that's doing a lot of good stuff too.

Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy, "Oh, my god, I can't believe we wore that" type of movie.

Even gods are following trends. They are afraid to be forgotten by their creators

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.