Quotes About Relevance

A man's worth is measured by his importance to society and to humanity generally

A minor point at such a moment.

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

Not all bits have equal value.

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

The Word of God isn't for one particular season. It's for every season. But in its specific application, it's best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Time does not have the same appeal for every one