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“Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.”

Might Results Information Higher Cost Online Users Tied Profile Verification Irrelevance

Author:Eric Schmidt

“There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.”

“If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material. Our dealings with Nature are just like this.”

Ifs Should Might Numbers Materials Thousand Tables Mere Patterns Sufficient Statistics Propose Beans Eliminating Dealings Packing Irrelevance

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about vital corporations by experiencing a non-vital corporation. You would have thought that, when what stands between you and bankruptcy is some money, your focus would be on making some money, but that was not [Steve Jobs’] preoccupation. His observation was that the products weren’t good enough and his resolve was, we need to make better products. That stood in stark contrast to the previous attempts to turn the company around.”

Needs Enough Would Be Jobs Turns Company Focus Products Observation Corporations Apples Resolve Good Enough Contrast Starks Bankruptcy Preoccupation Irrelevance

Author:Jonathan Ive

“Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.”

Ifs World Life Mind Kind Mean Art States Artist Rooms Existence Practice Knowing Fine Art Is Finals Including Acknowledge Fine Arts Impotence Parcel Irresponsibility Irrelevance

Author:Angela Carter

“To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that it does no more than recycle patriotic pieties unsuited to a global marketplace, would be an act of appallingly self-inflicted collective memory loss.”

Doe Self Would Be Memories Loss History British Collectives Patriotic Suspicion Marketplace Piety British History Memory Loss Irrelevance Self Inflicted Collective Memory

Book:A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603

Source: A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603

“By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful, but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine outselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern world than are faithful to Christ, we have lost not only our identity but our authority and our relevance. Our crying need is to be faithful as well as relevant”

“Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system”

Source: Huxley and God: essays

“His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.”

Ifs Community Response Remarkable Irrelevance

Author:Elizabeth Kenny

“On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.”

Men School Young Science Choices Literature Loses Duty Accounts Young Man Branches Graduates Irrelevant Assignments Monotony Tedium Studious Irrelevance

Author:Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

“Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.”

Law Attention Demand Extremity Irrelevance

Author:Janet Frame

“But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice.”

I Can Would Be Cutting Painting Materials Right Now Photography Boring Determined Favors Magazines Covered Irrelevant Artifice Irrelevance Covered Up

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.”

Life Window Irrelevance

Book:Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

Source: Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

“So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.”

Has Beens Faces Culture Social Natural Dying Creatures Absolutes Organisms Exit Living Creatures Hygiene Irrelevance

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life