Trivial Solution

Famous quotes containing the words trivial and/or solution:

“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“To the questions of the officiously meddling police Falter replied absently and tersely; but, when he finally grew tired of this pestering, he pointed out that, having accidentally solved “the riddle of the universe,” he had yielded to artful exhortation and shared that solution with his inquisitive interlocutor, whereupon the latter had died of astonishment.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)