Complexity Quotes · Page 17

For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.

— William Carlos Williams

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you…

— Jamie Bell

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

— Paul Dickson

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

— Thane Rosenbaum

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

— Alan Stern

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a…

— Greg Boyle

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

— Dick Cavett

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away…

— Anonymous

We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not…

— Anonymous

So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to…

— Randall Kennedy

The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world,…

— Barack Obama

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at…

— David Deutsch

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and…

— Noah Lukeman

What I have learned from working on those great shows is what is the DNA that makes them so deeply involving and…

— Jeremy Podeswa

“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided…

— Maarten Boudry

I have more than thirty thousand hours of family and relationship counseling experience under my belt. Over the years, I have seen…

— Esther Perel

The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves…

— Kenny Smith

Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.…

— Greg Kramer

Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind…

— Stephen Burt

The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously…

— Robert Nozick

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom…

— Douglas Adams

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

— Stefan Zweig

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free,…

— Gary Ross

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

— Donald A. Norman

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do…

— Richard Schmid

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are…

— Winston Churchill

We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

— Junot Diaz

Complexity emerges from unexpected outcomes it is also used as a tool of repression.

— Anonymous

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

— Tom Hiddleston

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that…

— Boris Beizer

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

— Kevin Kelly

The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of…

— Timothy Shriver

A lie cant be covered by another lie. As it stacks up one after another, things just get more and more complicated.

— Anonymous

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

— David Parnas

I'm very thankful I'm finding my way, and people are excited to bring me into roles that demand a certain complexity.

— Nicholas D'Agosto

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf