Famous quotes containing the words trivial and/or algebra:
“My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)