Quotes About Trends

Oh hearts that loved in the good old way have been out of fashion this many a day

is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

No self-respecting gastronome was going to look back on the 1950s with anything except pity. •

will never be called upon to enact: the mainstream is

Bespoke vaginas are the new Birkin bags.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Going viral isn't random, magic, or luck. It's a science.

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Estas tendencias patológicas (y sobre todo de despilfarro innecesario) del crecimiento exponencial de la producción de bienes y servicios podrían ser diagnosticadas a tiempo —vale decir, reconocidas por lo que son, e incluso inspirar medidas curativas o preventivas— si no fuera por la existencia de otro fenómeno de crecimiento exponencial que desemboca en un exceso de información.

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA.

Some consumers buy products not because they are 'better" in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they're buying is not just a product, but also a piece of popularity itself.

Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.

One area which shows how unknowingly predictable we are, is the way we decorate our houses. We all feel we make unique and distinct choices, yet we all conform to a cultural standard.

El retroceso que sufrirá América Latina en sus condiciones de desarrollo, a situaciones existentes en décadas anteriores, es muy preocupante.