Quotes About Relevance

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

It used to be that in media, Johnny Carson used to be the most important person when he would invite you over to sit on the couch after your comedy skit. Now it's whatever Howard Stern says goes.

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

I used to tell people I was a comic and they'd be fascinated. Now all you get is: 'Oh yeah, my cousin Steve's a comic.'

What's great about MTV is that it belongs to whatever generation is the steward at the time.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?