Quotes About Relevance

You don't compete against products and services in your category: you compete against anything that gets the job done from the user's point of view.

If it can be used again, it is not wisdom but theory.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

How bloated we all are to think that our childhoods matter, that anybody really cares about our little lives.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

The significance doesn't matter. The historical significance deadens it.

You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for it is the key to the enjoyment of literature.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

Talk to me, Richard. It isn't difficult. Move the teeth and agitate the tongue. Tell me news of the family. Am I superseded yet? Oh, Richard, a blush!

Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse.

If time allowed, I should be delighted to discuss my private life in every choice particular with all of you, but it really isn't relevant.

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.

You want to check your legal position, you do, mate. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job, aren't we? I mean, what's the use of our sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives you his bleeding phone number the next morning?

Look," said Zaphod, "will you get it into your heads? That's just a recorded message. It's millions of years old. It doesn't apply to us, get it?

Does that matter at this stage?" shouted Arthur.

My name is not important

I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

we started talking more about all of the fiftysomethings being dumped out of the economy by downsizing. No one knows what to do with these people, and it's so sad, because being 50 nowadays isn't like being 50 a hundred years ago when you'd probably be dead.

Perhaps it's not a matter of unimportant sites, but unimportant archaeologists.

A word in season is most precious.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly.

I believe the "present" matters - not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms - a false perspective.