Quotes About Relevance

I never understand," he said, shaking his head, "why anyone would go through the trouble of making up new people in this world when there's already billions of the buggers I don't give a shit about.

Although history is concerned with the past, it is conducted in the present.

TO SUCCEED, A BUSINESS'S STRATEGY needs to be relevant to its employees, shareholders and customers. As well as increasing its profitability and value and meeting any other goals that may be set, the strategy also needs to take account of present realities and future trends. The context in which strategy is developed and implemented will determine its success.

How else can one explain the survival of so much that is so utterly pointless – barristers' wigs, bearskins, an unelected House of Lords, flummeries from the Trooping the Colour to Swan-upping, or archaic-sounding offices of state like Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or Warden of the Cinque Ports? In the end, it gets to everyone: those who start their adulthood in passionate argument for modernization end up dreaming of a seat in the House of Lords.

The democratization of manufacturing means that anyone and eventually everyone can access the means of production, making the question of who should own and control the means of production irrelevant, and capitalism along with it.

Too often, however, we tend to read these accounts merely as biblical history without relating them to our lives and our situations. But

The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

Data Dump: an excessive, meaningless, shapeless outpouring of data without purpose or plan. The inevitable reaction of audiences to a Data Dump is not persuasion, but rather the horrific effect known as MEGO: Mine Eyes Glaze Over. The inevitable reaction of audiences to a Data Dump is not persuasion, but rather the horrific effect known as MEGO: Mine Eyes Glaze Over. Why? Why would any presenter in his or her right mind do

But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know. The costs of measuring may be greater than the benefits.

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Being old is being useless, and having things be useless to you. Because: the world is what is still to come. It isn't what is or what was.

I want to belong to you, like a name. I want to be a thing people have to know to know you.

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Das Wort Interesse stammt vom lateinischen inter-esse, das heisst dabeisein, beim anderen sein, nicht in sich selbst eingeschlossen sein.

Maailmas jätkub kõige jaoks kohta. Ainult mitte inimese jaoks.

Kui oled surnud, oled kole tähtis – kui elad, ei hooli sust keegi.

Wir sind überflüssig für uns selbst

Dodd acknowledged Congress's reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.

He had only to assert the most commonplace thing and it sounded important and convincing.

as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.