A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Geek culture is all about being super passionate about your interests and not afraid to express them, even if your interests are unpopular.
My singing voice had rescued me from the scene I was in at school - I was an unpopular, bookish kid who had an indeterminate ethnic background. I became fascinated with women sopranos because they had a future that I didn't as a singer.
Professors who hold unpopular positions or state inconvenient facts are now considered psychologically toxic.
A lot of the progress in machine learning - and this is an unpopular opinion in academia - is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.
I left the Church of England because there was a huge bundle of straw. The ordination of women was the last straw, but it was only one of many. For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.
My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.
You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.
I'm not afraid of making big and sometimes unpopular calls if they're the right thing to do.
