#trivia

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

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nauseated #personalities #print #sight #trivial

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#become #children #factual #more #much

People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#enron #over #people #really #seriously

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#revolution #shift #suffering #trivial

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. ↗

— Criss Jami

#aristotle #awesomeness #consistency #excellence #habit

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#philosopher #says #something #then #trivial

I want to import what’s important, and export the trivial out of my life.
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— Jarod Kintz

#import #important #life #trivial #life

Vitamin B proved to be not one vitamin but several, which is why we have B1, B2, and so on. To add to the confusion, Vitamin K has nothing to do with an alphabetical sequence. It was called K because its Danish discoverer, Henrik Dam, dubbed it "koagulations viatmin" for its role in blood clotting. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#trivia #vitamins #home

Because bread was so important, the laws governing its purity were strict and the punishment severe. A baker who cheated his customers could be fined £10 per loaf sold, or made to do a month's hard labor in prison. For a time, transportation to Australia was seriously considered for malfeasant bakers. This was a matter of real concern for bakers because every loaf of bread loses weight in baking through evaporation, so it is easy to blunder accidentally. For that reason, bakers sometimes provided a little extra- the famous baker's dozen. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#history #trivia #home