#trivial

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#blog #comments #communication #fragmentary #harmless

A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cannot #eat #i #just #know

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state. ↗

— Harold Lloyd

#considerable #mental #pain #state #trivial

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are. ↗

— John Malkovich

#most #then #things #trivial

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#dues #giving #humanity #parties #pays

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#democratic #enjoy #equality #facts #how

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#conflict #deep #most #scales #something

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#claims #companies #constituted #despite #expenses

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#any #briefly #inverse #involved #item