quotes 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 SalamSource : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.378, World Scientific
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There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
-- Alan PerlisSource : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface
-- Alexander StepanovSource : "C Programming". Interview with Al Stevens, collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca. 1995.
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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 -
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There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-- Cynthia HandSource : Cynthia Hand (2012). “Hallowed”, p.20, Egmont UK
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Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity
-- David AllenSource : Twitter post from Mar 16, 2014
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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 HodgkinSource : Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”
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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 -
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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
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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 PagelsSource : Heinz R. Pagels (1988). “The dreams of reason: the computer and the rise of the sciences of complexity”, Simon & Schuster
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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 BensonSource : Herbert Benson (1976). “The Relaxation Response”, G K Hall & Company
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My goal is to simplify complexity.
-- Jack DorseySource : Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.
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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.
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Simplicity and complexity need each other.
-- John MaedaSource : John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.45, MIT Press
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People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
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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 -
The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
-- L. Ron Hubbard -
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).
-- Larry Tesler -
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Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity
-- Leslie Orgel -
Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.
-- Marc Benioff -
The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.
-- Marsha Mason -
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I love to work. I love to have complexity.
-- Mary McDonnell -
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful...
-- Michelle Obama -
Growth creates complexity, which requires simplicity.
-- Mike Krzyzewski -
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.
-- Mortimer Adler -
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
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I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
-- Richard RoxburghSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
-- Susan ChoiSource : "Antiwar Activism, Starring Patty Hearst". Interview with Lynn Andriani, www.publishersweekly.com. June 23, 2003.
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I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.
-- Temple Grandin -
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All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
-- Yevgeny Zamyatin -
The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
-- Yukihiro MatsumotoSource : "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.
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I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.
-- Jose JamesSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.
-- Paul Singer -
Harvey Weinstein is a monster. And what campus victims are talking about has a lot more gray in it - many more complexities.
-- Vanessa Grigoriadis -
I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.
-- Wolfgang Tillmans -
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Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.
-- Roger Kimball -
Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.
-- Simon KinbergSource : "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.
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Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
-- Jim Goldberg -
And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
-- Will Wright -
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Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.
-- Lancelot Law Whyte