#relevant

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept. ↗

— James Collins

#application #ask #become #concept #directly

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it. ↗

— Curt Flood

#baseball #rebellion #relevant #socially

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #because #deliberately #did #eclipsed

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ignore #instruments #irrelevant #movements #once

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. ↗

— Yann Martel

#been #book #different #every #failure

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil. ↗

— Brian May

#alive #answer #any #fossil #i

When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#being #espn #glad #i #just

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. ↗

— Rick Moody

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions. ↗

— Esai Morales

#because #being #day #end #end of the day