What Items Does It Make Senses NOT to Back Up?

I've been muddling through with Time Capsule, having some successes (thanks, in part, to this forum) and some failures. (It's amazing how much information one has to discover on one's on and through others.)
I know one way to cut down on the initial backup time is to exclude some folders and files.
Which items does it make sense NOT to back up? For example, is it pointless to back up System files? Applications? Libraries?
If I somehow lost all files on my desktop's hard drive, what would be essential to have as backups on the Time Capsule?

Some other examples of large monolithic files that aren't great candidates to have Time Machine backup are:
Certain mail apps - not Apple Mail, but Eudora, Entourage, Thunderbird?? store mail in large mailbox files so every incoming, every delete, changes the entire mailbox and the whole thing gets backed up.
Certain photo apps. like Adobe Lightroom and IView maintain large catalog files that change every time you do anything - then the whole thing gets backed up. (I don't know about the inner workings of Aperture or iPhoto so I can;t comment on them)
You do want to back these things up, and while Time Machine will work with then, they chew up space very quickly. Probably better to make/update copies of these files periodically.
There is a valuable App - [Time Tracker|www.charlessoft/TimeTracker.zip].
It is useful, particularly when getting started, or anytime it looks like some backup is unusually large.
It will tell you for each backup exactly what was backed up and how much space was required for each drive, folders within drive, files within folders etc....
It will enable you to determine if there is something being backed up that was large which you didn't realize, or identify things you don't want it to backup etc.

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      Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
      Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse
      Apple Inc. BRCM2046 Hub
      Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
      Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
    Firewire Information: ℹ️
      LaCie Hard Drive Quadra 800mbit - 800mbit max
      S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
      disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 32 KB
      LaCie (disk2s3) /Volumes/LaCie : 1.00 TB (18.34 GB free)
    Gatekeeper: ℹ️
      Mac App Store and identified developers
    Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️
      [failed] com.apple.AirPlayUIAgent.plist [Details]
    Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
      [failed] com.apple.wdhelper.plist [Details]
    Launch Agents: ℹ️
      [invalid?] com.support.com.peruser.Nexusd.plist [Support]
      [invalid?] com.support.com.peruser.Nexussrvd.plist [Support]
    Launch Daemons: ℹ️
      [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]
      [failed] com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist [Support]
    User Launch Agents: ℹ️
      [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Support]
      [invalid?] com.citrixonline.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist [Support]
    User Login Items: ℹ️
      None
    Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
      JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
      FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.246 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
      QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.1
      AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
      AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.10 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
      CANONiMAGEGATEWAYDL: Version: 3.2.0.1 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
      Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.246 - SDK 10.6 Mismatch! Adobe recommends 16.0.0.235
      Silverlight: Version: 5.0.61118.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
      iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0
    Safari Extensions: ℹ️
      DailyBibleGuide
    3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
      Flash Player  [Support]
      MacFUSE  [Support]
    Time Machine: ℹ️
      Skip System Files: NO
      Auto backup: YES
      Destinations:
      LaCie [Local]
      Total size: 1.00 TB
      Total number of backups: 190
      Oldest backup: 2011-03-25 14:01:41 +0000
      Last backup: 2014-12-13 19:35:53 +0000
      Size of backup disk: Excellent
      Backup size 1.00 TB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
    Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
          3% mds
          1% WindowServer
          0% WebProcess
          0% fontd
          0% Mail
    Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
      322 MB WebProcess
      155 MB mds
      94 MB AdobeReader
      90 MB Mail
      84 MB Finder
    Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
      209 MB Free RAM
      870 MB Active RAM
      743 MB Inactive RAM
      324 MB Wired RAM
      981 MB Page-ins
      47 MB Page-outs
    Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
      Dec 13, 2014, 10:50:33 AM Self test - passed
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