Quality Decline Quotes

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.

I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

When you had just three and then four channels, I could always find something that was watchable because the standard of TV was much higher. In those days, they had so much more money to put into so many less programmes.

The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry.

Isn't it strange that as technology advances, the quality of life frequently declines.

The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.

HBO spent a huge amount of money on 'Game Of Thrones,' and it won't be able to keep spending the money if it can't make it back from people watching it legitimately. It will have an effect on the quality of the programme.

Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.