Quotes About Relevance

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

I have no interest in dying.But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

Design cannot rescue failed content.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

In the face of Covid-19, everything else seems a side-issue.