Quotes About Trends

Everything's mobile these days. Let's go mo-bile! But really, that's just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don't get it, and you move on.

You just never know with movies how they'll be seen in a few years. You have no idea. Like, movies that were super popular when they came out have been forgotten. And other movies - and I put 'Sarah Marshall' in this - kind of weirdly stand the test of time a little bit.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

Two thousand eight was the last year on record in which Protestants as a whole—not just white Protestants—represented a majority of the country.10

Today, former Catholics—most of them white and relatively young—make up 15 percent of the total adult population.45

the U.S. Census Bureau has not asked about religious affiliation since 1946

According to Business Insider, VR headsets alone will grow from a $37 million dollar industry in 2015 to $2.8 billion in 2020—growing by a factor of 75. Goldman Sachs predicts revenue from all categories of VR including software will reach $110 billion by 2020, making the category bigger than the TV industry in its first five years. We

History shows that where gamers take people, everything else follows. There

By contrast, young people are spending more time on their phones. A new generation is emerging that considers their phones to be their personal computers. Simultaneously, it is becoming cool to not own a car at all.

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.

Cute-and-furry was always an easier sell than carapaced-and-multilegged, for some obscure reason. Grownups, so unreasonable...

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field

We always lead with hits. If you want to have success, you have to be riding a hit.

One epoch's popular culture is another's esoterica.

It's a world gone mad! Pacifists paying for boot camp! Feminists learning to pole dance! Geeks flipping tractor tires! And the trends keep coming!

current passion for all things "natural," there is a good chance for market success. After all, effective promotion often trumps evidence.

the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning children.

Diagnostic fads simply relabel patients that psychiatrists have always seen.

In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine ' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce.

My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.