#fashionable

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times. ↗

— Greg Egan

#been #directions #drags #fashionable #flying

I'm against fashionable thinking. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#fashionable #i #thinking

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected. ↗

— Emma Willard

#boarding #boarding school #conversation #daughter #expected

Fashion is made to become unfashionable. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#fashion #made #unfashionable

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

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Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#few #popular #today #unfashionable

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#being smart #brain #doing #exercise #fashionable

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#also #beauty #concerned #fashion #fashionable

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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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