Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans)… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it… — Harold Urey Copy Share Image
The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
I will help-but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own.… — Sharman Apt Russell Copy Share Image
“The Internet is dumb. The Internet, with all its access to brain research, anthropology journals, social studies networks, and biographies and autobiographies,… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity." In the L.A. of the future,… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
“complexity of love would be like trying to tell me we live forever. There are so many levels of love it is… — Paul Francis Copy Share Image
The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
We are addressing duplication and complexity. At the same time, we are investing more in research and development, speeding up the time… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
“A complex world of intrigues and power play among couples has combined to deny young people the love and attention they truly… — Oche Otorkpa Copy Share Image
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I do think that in some ways, the complexity of technology, the things that we all have to deal with in media,… — Jeff Goodby Copy Share Image
During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Device makers, especially consumer-focused ones, have been the Achilles' heel of IoT security. These vendors have often viewed proper security implementations as… — Maciej Kranz Copy Share Image
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
