Complexes Quotes · Page 15

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

— Steve Jobs

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...

— H. L. Mencken

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

— Charles Jencks

It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.

— Barack Obama

Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.

— Thomas Huxley

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing…

— Annette Bening

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

— Jean Tinguely

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

— Douglas Engelbart

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority…

— Pierre Daninos

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only…

— Neil Gershenfeld

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got…

— Michael Foot

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture…

— Timothy Keller

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of…

— Chris Alexander

The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively…

— Al Gore

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is…

— Will Durant

An atheist before Darwin could have said, following Hume: I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that…

— Richard Dawkins

I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for…

— Tim Schafer

We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to…

— Walt Disney

Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest…

— Ron Paul

I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces…

— Lucy Corin

Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as…

— Rita Dove

The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.

— Bernd Sturmfels

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

— Susan Blackmore

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

— Martin Rees

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

— Kofi Annan

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

— Benjamin Carson

I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

— Elizabeth Warren

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

— Fritjof Capra

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

— Thomas Pogge

I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex.

— Thom Yorke

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

— Slash

It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

— Tim Brown

A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated…

— Peter Farb

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

— Daniel Wolpert

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

— Timothy Keller

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

— Dan Millman

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

— William of Ockham