In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity. — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and… — James Black Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost. — Thomas Eisner Copy Share Image
“Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We live in two worlds - order and chaos. In the world of order, we plan, reflect, and think about what to… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I never meet a church that wishes they didn't do it. I never meet a leader that wishes they didn't do it.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“But theory rarely works in practice, and predictability has a devious sister named complexity. But” — Jurgen Appelo Copy Share Image
Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of. — Julian Jarrold Copy Share Image
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
It's easy to talk about digitalising things; it's quite difficult to do in a B2B environment. It's hard to digitalise that complexity. — Soren Skou Copy Share Image
Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand. — Chris Brogan Copy Share Image
Life is such a rolling coaster, either you roll with it willingly or it roll you unwillingly, but you must roll either… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work,” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
