Quotes About Trends

One Direction are super cool.

I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.

According to a recent study by a major university, the average college student pursues "sex without strings and marriage without rings.

The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All

The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy

there is everywhere in the civilized world a rapidly rising incidence of vice and crime

one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes according to the fashion

Smaller families also created a narrower age gap between first- and last-born children; this trend, in turn, meant that children shared more in common with one another than with their parents.

Popular! In America, what else matters?

The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

For the first time in recent history, young men are more likely to live with their parents than with a partner.

In the past, most of us would have imagined that daughters would be more likely to move back in with their parents as adults than sons. Because that was reality. No longer. Today, young men between twenty-five and thirty-one are 66 percent more likely than their female counterparts to be living with their parents.

For the first time in US history, more than half of children born to mothers under thirty were born outside marriage.

Today, young men between twenty-five and thirty-one are 66 percent more likely than their female counterparts to be living with their parents.

regression inevitably occurs when the correlation between two measures is less than perfect

extreme outcomes (both high and low) are more likely to be found in small than in large samples. This explanation is not causal.

In 1850 Americans drank 36 million gallons of the stuff; by 1890 annual consumption had exploded to 855 million gallons. During that four-decade span, while the population tripled, that population's capacity for beer had increased twenty-four-fold.

In 1979, only 40 percent of American men with at least a college degree had wives who also had at least graduated from college. By 2016 the comparable percentage was 70 percent.

The nexus between crime and radical Islam is one of the most disturbing emerging trends confronting U.S. and Western European counterterrorism officials.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Extrapolations are useful, particularly in that form of soothsaying called forecasting trends. But in looking at the figures or charts made from them, it is necessary to remember one thing constantly: The trend-to-now may be a fact, but the future trend represents no more than an educated guess. Implicit in it is "everything else being equal" and "present trends continuing." And somehow everything else refuses to remain equal, else life would be dull indeed.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.