#popularity

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#computers #developing #development #explicitly #free

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#among #attractive #elements #equally #fair

The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#art

To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap. ↗

— Jennifer Ziegler

#popularity #unpopularity #funny

One of the eternal verities of human life is that if you make the same choices as other people, they will think you are intelligent. ↗

— George Hammond

#popularity #intelligence

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#nonconformity #popularity #soul #life

Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons & Dragons but for cool people who have got friends. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#popularity #twitter #twitter

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#insignificance #unpopularity #vanity #vanity

I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice. ↗

— Tom Upton

#young-adult #young-adult

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#between #conceit #delicate #delicate balance #modesty