Simplicity Hides Complexity

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

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

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

— Penelope Cruz

[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

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

— Ted Waitt

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

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

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

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

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

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

— Jan de Bont

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

— Fernando Perez

If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify…

— Peter Cohan

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

— Daniel Levitin

I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the…

— Karen Armstrong