Quotes and Sayings About Complexity
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
-- Abdus Salam -
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
-- Alan Perlis -
Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface
-- Alexander Stepanov -
Without complexity, there's no intensity.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.
-- Ben Marcus -
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-- Cynthia Hand -
Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity
-- David Allen -
Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.
-- David Gelernter -
The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
-- Dorothy Hodgkin -
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
-- Douglas Adams -
Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.
-- Edward Norton -
It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
-- Edward T. Hall -
Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
-- Eric Lander -
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity
-- Gyorgy Ligeti -
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.
-- Heinz Pagels -
It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
-- Helen Keller -
Avoid complexities. Make everything as simple as possible.
-- Henry Maudslay -
We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.
-- Herbert Benson -
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.
-- Jan de Bont -
... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.
-- Janet Leigh -
People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.
-- Kenneth E. Boulding
