#trivial

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear. ↗

— Nick Stahl

#good #had #hope #i #i think

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#always #construe #criticizing #defects #disturb

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#call #comes #content #defines #fits

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil. ↗

— Theodor W. Adorno

#inertia #morality #triviality #metaphysics

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#character #deep #genius #high #i

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#advancement #also #commentary #continue #exponential

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#false #great #great truth #opposite #plainly

To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#always #because #demonstrate #example #first

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#good #good memory #memory #trained #trivial

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. ↗

— John Fowles

#critical #duty #largely #pretending #trivial