Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values.

— John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

— David Allen

Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

— Penelope Cruz

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

— Adrienne Rich

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and…

— Edward Tufte

Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is…

— Allen Lacy

As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we…

— Aaron Koblin

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of…

— Bill Watterson

I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you…

— Anonymous

We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the…

— Christoffer Boe

The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right.

— Ted Waitt

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an…

— John L. Casti

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

— Tony Hoare