166 Quotes About Trends

Bigotry is one of the oldest and ugliest of trends, so persistent it only counts as a fad because the target keeps changing: Huguenots, Koreans, homosexuals, Muslims, Tutsis, Jews, Quakers, wolves, Serbs, Salem housewives. Nearly every group, so long as it’s small and different, has had a turn, and the pattern never changes—disapproval, isolation, demonization, persecution. Which was one of the reasons it’d be nice to find the switch that turned fads on. I’d like to turn that one off for good.

Just because it's a trend should we do it?

In America, they have this thing called a story cycle. When they're at war, they start doing fantasy and war-style entertainment. When fantasy gets big, they go through a recession, and horror starts gaining popularity. When horror gets popular, mystery starts gaining popularity. Then when mystery reaches its peak, science fiction starts gaining popularity. Then things get rough again, and we go back to Fantasy". This quote was taken from an interview from The Myth of Cthulhu: Dark Navigation.

...It was only ninety-four pages long, and so obviously wretchedly written it was destined to become a huge fad

(...) o que é a vida senão uma parada de modas?

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

Active management of one's online presence---say, by receiving quarterly reports from your identity manager tracking the changing shape of your online identity---will become the new normal for the prominent and those who aspire to be prominent.

Trend currents (as opposed to current trends) are big-picture, unstoppable, inexorable forces that are shaping the world we live in.

For, dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true?Cling to it long enough, and not a doubtIt will turn true again, for so it goes.Most of the change we think we see in lifeIs due to truths being in and out of favor.