#fashionable

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#competitive #concept #days #excellence #explicitly

It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#america #appears #blame #central #correct

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. ↗

— Jose Marti

#make #necessary #virtue

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#everybody #fashionable #literary #made #milieu

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#class #even #fashionable #i #prefer

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.' ↗

— Chris Robinson

#been #early #fashionable #music #nineties

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#been #fashionable #hardly #i #i think

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company. ↗

— Lee Scott

#broadest #brush #company #failures #fashionable

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#communist #different #fashionable #i #kids

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#actually #always #clothes #comment #cook