Nontrivial Quotes

#1. Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Warren G. Bennis

#2. [The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Donald Knuth

#3. When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.

Andy Murray

#4. Exposure to defeat is a very important thing. Anyone who doesn't look to get beaten is doing a disservice to himself.

Ted Turner

#5. Every flower blooms at a different pace.

Suzy Kassem

#6. It's always been my dream to look like Mariah Carey in my photos with a microphone. I don't know how she does it. When she sings, she looks perfect.

Solange Knowles

#7. Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.

John Donne

#8. God hates those who praise themselves.

Pope Clement I

#9. Elysium must wait, Ariston thought before his eyes closed.

Sasha Summers

#10. If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak.

Chick Willis

#11. Authority - when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats - makes people shut down & productivity ceases.

John Stoker

#12. If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

Noam Chomsky

#13. Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.

Kemp Muhl

#14. They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.

Jack Kerouac

#15. Oh, what marvelous egomaniacs you men are!

Nora Roberts

#16. Centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.

David Friedrich Strauss

#17. So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein.

Guy Green

#18. First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

Napoleon Hill

#19. data mining is the act of digging into large amounts of raw data to discover unique nontrivial useful patterns.

Anil Maheshwari