Evgeny Morozov

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

Belarusian Writer

Barack Obama

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

American President

Wayne Dyer

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

American Psychologist

George Jean Nathan

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

American Editor

Howard Jacobson

Many a trivial novel has been written about an important subject, and many a profound one about nothing in particular.

British Novelist

Henry Clay

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

American Statesman

Ethel Merman

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

American Musician

Richard Dawkins

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

English Scientist

Julius Caesar

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Roman Leader

Donald Hall

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

American Poet

Used to indicate something lacks emotional significance and shouldn't upset someone.

Emotional Weight

Often used in casual conversations to downplay issues or problems being discussed.

Conversation Tone

In academic discussions, trivializing can dismiss a point someone else considers important.

Educational Context

Implies focus on a minor detail may be unnecessary in the broader scheme.

Detail Importance

What is trivial for one may have value for another, denoting subjectivity.

Perceived Value

Trivial highlights a contrasting relationship with something of greater importance.

Trivial vs. Important

In maths, trivial implies ease and simplicity in solving, not always unimportant.

Ease in Mathematics

In math, a trivial solution or case often has no practical application.

Problem Solving

In tech, a trivial program performs basic functions, ideal for learning.

Tech Simplicity

Labeling a task trivial may underestimate the skills needed to complete it.

Underestimating Complexity

 underground cavern you still have to have airtight holes and stuff like that it's not like it'll hold the air in but it'll protect you from radiation and it also protect you from temperature extremes the trick is lava tubes are not so easy to find because they're underground we're still in the process of figuring out where those are and mapping them is not a trivial thing now

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 sixteen years old last year when I met her and she aspired to be a professional dancer and during the course of one of her dance rehearsals she fell on her outstretched arm and sprained her wrist now you would probably imagine as she did that a wrist sprain is a trivial event in a person's life rapid in an ace bandage takes some ibuprofen for a week

The mystery of chronic...

 Now at the time, I'm thinking to myself, what is going on here? I mean, how could a game so trivial intervene so powerfully in such serious, and in some cases life-and-death, circumstances? I mean, if it hadn't worked for me, there's no way I would have believed it was possible. Well, it turns out there's some science here, too.

The game that can give...

 and we get to observe different parts of the image. The imaging algorithms we develop fill in the missing gaps of the disco ball in order to reconstruct the underlying black hole image. If we had telescopes located everywhere on the globe -- in other words, the entire disco ball -- this would be trivial.

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 But these days, with climate change and anti-vaxxing, those subjects -- are not safe either. So this world that we live in, this world in which every conversation has the potential to devolve into an argument, where our politicians can't speak to one another and where even the most trivial of issues

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways...

 into something as trivial as a desk lamp. I mean, look at them -- at the end of this movie, you actually feel something for two pieces of furniture. And I said, I have to learn how to do this. So I made a really bad career decision. And that's what my mom was like when I did it.

Robots with "soul" PIPE Guy...

 thousands of them have wanted to watch that movie know why I want to go back to the admittedly trivial example of the lies that I told about myself the fact is they worked I got on perfectly well with people who may otherwise have been hostile to me and so it is with the

The lies we tell about...

 It's capitalism as it was ultimately meant to be, meeting important needs, not incrementally competing for trivial differences in product attributes and market share. Shared value is when we can create social value and economic value simultaneously.

Michael Porter: Why...

 This is not trivial, because listening is our access to understanding. Conscious listening always creates understanding, and only without conscious listening can these things happen. A world where we don't listen to each other at all

5 ways to listen better...

 For anyone who still feels this is a trivial issue, consider understanding your body is crucial to the huge issue of sex education and consent. By deeply, intimately knowing what kind of touch feels right,