Simplicity is not about making something without ornament…

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

— Laurie Anderson

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after…

— Kofi Annan

For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

People are messy and complex, particularly in the homosexual world.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,…

— Alan Greenspan

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

— Alexander Cockburn

The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,…

— Gaston Rebuffat

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel…

— Rodney Clapp

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

— Nicholas Rodger

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop…

— Steve Jobs

“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the…

— James Hollis

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to…

— Robert Anton Wilson

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum…

— Michael Behe

We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough…

— Kofi Annan