Quotes About Relevance

It's dubious and dangerous, Drucker is saying, to mistake what's measurable for what's important.

A search engine often draws our attention to a particular snippet of text, a few words or sentences that have strong relevance to whatever we're searching for at the moment, while providing little incentive for taking in the work as a whole. We don't see the forest when we search the Web. We don't even see the trees. We see twigs and leaves.

Intensive multitaskers are "suckers for irrelevancy," commented Clifford Nass, the Stanford professor who led the research.

The strip-mining of "relevant content" replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT

If markets change then so must brands.

Brian was constantly looking for topics that kids could relate to. Even though he was dealing in the most advanced score-charts and arrangements, he was still incredibly conscious of this commercial thing. This absolute need to relate.

like all the great rock'n'rollers, to sound like he'd dropped in from another planet and yet get the stuff which was right to the heart of what you were living today. That was how he opened up your vision.

It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.

That was how kings were. If you were of no use, you didn't exist.

Useful men stay alive.

Nichts was irgendeinem Wesen in irgendeiner Situation grundsätzlich möglich ist, ist von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung.

In tijden van volledige vrijheid neemt onverschilligheid voor de waarheid zo'n hoge vlucht, dat niemand de moeite neemt om een waarheid te bevestigen of weerleggen.

Whereas contemporaries read only the optimist with enthusiasm, posterity rereads the pessimist with admiration.

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Even a stone has its uses, and man who is the most intelligent of all creatures must be of some use, hasn't he?

It must be noted that this Person of Consequence had only lately become a person of consequence, and until recently had been a person of no consequence. Though, indeed, his position even now was not reckoned of consequence in comparison with others of still greater consequence.

Purpose "reflects the importance people attach to the company's work

the way they make you fell does not mater

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Ha a történelem igazán tudományos, akkor semmi olyat nem tud mondani, amire érdemes lenne odafigyelni. Ha pedig megpróbálja betölteni azt a szerepet, amelynek korábbi fontosságát köszönhette, vagyis értelmezi a múltat a jelen számára, ez esetben amit igazságként mutat be, a legjobb esetben is csak becslés, olykor pedig egyenesen tévedés.

I just wanted to do something important.

If Shakespeare were alive now, no doubt he'd be interviewed every week and his opinions canvassed on every subject from national foreign policy to the social effects of punk rock. But in his day nobody cared what Shakespeare's views were about anything, and he wouldn't have been allowed to discuss public affairs publicly. He wasn't, therefore, under a constant pressure to become opinionated.

What's really driving so-called big data isn't the volume of information. It turns out big data doesn't have to be all that big. Rather, it's about a reconsideration of the fundamental economics of analyzing data.