Quotes About Relevance

Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World," he argued in his 1993 book on the topic. "It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.

The alternative, to not embrace all things Internet, is, as Postman would say, "invisible and therefore irrelevant.

background-research process, which combines exposure to potentially relevant material with free-form re-combination of ideas, comes straight out of Steven Johnson's book, Where Good Ideas Come From,

After thirty days of this self-imposed network isolation, ask yourself the following two questions about each of the services you temporarily quit: Would the last thirty days have been notably better if I had been able to use this service? Did people care that I wasn't using this service?

Tener claridad sobre lo importante equivale a tener claridad sobre lo que no es importante.

In which I argue that a mission chosen before you have relevant career capital is not likely to be sustainable. Mission

Without application, preaching is at best a lecture and at worst entertainment.

Comtemporary pulpits feel that to bring up dying is just not as relevant as telling people how to live, marry, succeed, relate, or become a winner.

Intensity is both the communicator's best friend and worst enemy. To really hold an audience, they must sense that what you are saying is important, at least to you.

Churches that ignore their communities will not grow, and churches that will not globalize don't matter much.

But this child is not worth unraveling the world for. No one is.

So maybe I wasn't that high profile when I was a student here," I said. "But am I really more interesting dead than alive?" "You don't seriously expect me to answer that, do you?" Elaine said.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

A la sociedad, para ser feliz en su anestesia (las hojas del rábano de la esperanza), le sobran los escritores.

History," Burckhardt once observed, "is what one age finds worthy of note in another.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Context is the necessary link that gives meaning to everything we observe.

Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

the Fifth Ideal is Customer Focus, where we ruthlessly question whether something actually matters to our customers, as in, are they willing to pay us for it or is it only of value to our functional silo?

Big enough to matter, small enough to lead, good fit with your crown jewels. If

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

El hombre tenía tal entendimiento que ya casi no servía para nada.