quotes about Trivia
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NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Trivia rarely affect efficiency. Are all the machinations worth it, when their primary effect is to make the code less readable?
-- Brian KernighanSource : Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill
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To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.
-- Christopher Langan -
There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.
-- Clarence John LaughlinSource : Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”
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Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
-- George Will -
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
-- Jack Welch -
One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.
-- Lynn Abbey -
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In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
-- Mary Kay Ash -
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
-- Max Lerner -
The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.
-- Molly HarperSource : Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.100, Simon and Schuster
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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
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Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.
-- Sarah Silverman -
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
-- Susan Griffin -
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
-- Vikram Seth -
I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious.
-- Adam Rodriguez -
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Don't speak if you don't have to about trivia. The time for joking comes because of the trust, and you have to earn the trust. So, I don't alibi for anything, and I'll take the heat. That's the other thing. Don't let them take the heat. We take the heat.
-- Phil RamoneSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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In a fast-paced world, today's popular brand could be tomorrow's trivia question.
-- D. Wayne Calloway -
I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.
-- David ShrigleySource : Source: www.motherjones.com