Michael Portillo

If the Tories and Lib Dems fought together, they'd keep their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right things for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky reality of governing.

British Journalist

John Lithgow

Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.

American Actor

Winona LaDuke

We filed a constitutional rights lawsuit on my reservation, and I had to go out and interview all these old people. And I found that many of the old people on my reservation didn't know who was president. That kind of pointed out to me the irrelevance at times of who is in Washington.

American Activist

Gary Hamel

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

American Businessman

Jane Smiley

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

American Writer

Patrick Lencioni

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

David Blunkett

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

British Politician

Ruth Porat

Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.

American Businesswoman

Janet Frame

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

New Zealander Novelist

Joe Gebbia

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

American Designer

Use 'irrelevance' to stress that something doesn't affect a situation or outcome.

Lack of Impact

'Irrelevance' often implies disregard for the unimportant element.

Dismissive Tone

Sometimes 'irrelevance' is used neutrally, without criticizing the subject itself.

Neutral Connotation

Use 'irrelevance' to highlight that something is off-topic in academic or formal discussions.

Topic Specific

Indicate the 'irrelevance' to address and clear up misunderstandings in a conversation.

Clarifying Misunderstandings

What's 'relevant' or 'irrelevant' can be subjective, depending on the context and goals.

Subjectivity

 And what I admire and appreciate about this project, aside from the fact, including the fact that it's based on real human need, is that it's a fantastic example of courage in the face of a sea of irrelevance.