Famous quotes containing the words trivial and/or algebra:
“If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)