Evolving Expectations Quotes

I think I used to be lower maintenance. I think I'm slowly becoming higher maintenance.

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.