Quotes About Relevance

My wife - an ex journalist and current TV producer - has a rule that she taught me at the start of B3ta. Does the item make you laugh, or does it make you go, 'Oh my God?' If you score on either count, then you have something that is worth sharing.

I kept having the producers of 'Fog in August' take out some of the Nazi terms and phrases. I don't want audiences to look at this doctor and say, 'He is a Nazi monster' and think that it has nothing to do with our lives today.

Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten.

The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.

Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

We all know Sen. Feinstein is out of touch, but just to make it worse, by not embracing today's technology, she isn't even connected. Out of touch and disconnected.

In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.

If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.

Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.

No disrespect to Cardiff but they probably needed me more than I needed them, when I was appointed.

Ain't nobody bumping Nas no more, no disrespect to him. He had his time.

The President must not be such a distant person.

Climate change is not a distant problem. It's involved in all of our lives through the stuff that we use, buy and eat - which is not to say that individuals like you and me are responsible for climate change.

I don't know if there is an expiration date on diversity.

I think the exploration and the search for who Jesus is, and that 2,000 years later we're still trying to figure out who He was, and did He really rise from the dead... And I think for me, the answer is 'yes,' and that's why we're talking about Him today.

Exposure is this thing people think they want but at the end of day it doesn't matter.

To the extent that anyone anywhere does anything interesting, the question is: 'Why isn't Apple doing that; why is Apple behind in that?' We aren't the Everything Company. We take on a very small number of things that we do very well, and we find that pretty rewarding.

When I watch a movie, I don't want to see the extra bits.