Trivial Quotes

401 Trivial quotes by 339 unique authors

...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing… — Unknown Author
We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate… — Orson F. Whitney
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences. — Confucius
By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum.… — Joseph Sobran
As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of… — Wendy Doniger
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds. — Henry David Thoreau
Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in… — Herbert Turnbull
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese… — Hu Shih
I like games that are simple. Not games that are trivial, but also not games that require you to invest a week or to relearn… — Sid Meier
Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are… — Garry Kasparov
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. — Robert Breault
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial… — Thomas Browne
Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups,… — Jaron Lanier
Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3] — Confucius
There are worse sins for a scientist than to be wrong. One is to be trivial — Robert MacArthur
There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of… — Sam Keen
Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones,… — Jennifer Worth
Now, I know it’s hard, particularly for our young people, to choose to observe the Sabbath day when athletic teams on which they so much… — H. David Burton
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged… — Henry David Thoreau
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the… — Unknown Author
If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something… — Richard Koch
Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another. — Vimala Thakar
The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from… — Greg McKeown

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