Emerging Trends Quotes

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

Like everyone else, I read newspapers and 'New Scientist' and try to put my finger on the trends which we can just see emerging now that are accelerating and might take off.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

I expect there will be more schools of any kind that haven't even been invented yet.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.

It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

Every year, there's a new idea we can't do and a new technology for something that excites us.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

I intend to explore emerging trends, not only in fashion but also in music and everything related to sports.