Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“We have an information economy that’s dependent on complex systems that change rapidly.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
In complex systems, one can think about linear interactions and complex or nonlinear interactions. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems. — David Parnas Copy Share Image
“human beings fail the way all complex systems fail: randomly and gradually.” — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex… — William Ross Ashby Copy Share Image
In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on. — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
“In technology, our work happens almost entirely within complex systems with a high risk of catastrophic consequences. As” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
What's important for all of us as chip companies is to keep the innovation going: putting out new products, figuring out how… — Lisa Su Copy Share Image
If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by… — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax,… — Sunni Brown Copy Share Image
“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The deep significance of this discovery appears to be that we have found a physical situation where two different natural principles, of… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability.… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
“Complex systems produce complicated results, and still there are identifiable patterns: Patriarchy is a system that delivers material benefits to men—unequally depending… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“AS A KID GROWING UP IN A RURAL PENNSYLVANIA COAL COUNTRY in the 1930s and 1940s, Bill McGowan never dreamed of a… — Scott Woolley Copy Share Image
The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a… — Joaquin Fuster Copy Share Image
I have never seen myself as an alarmist but rather as a scientist with a critical viewpoint, and in that sense I… — Lennart Bengtsson Copy Share Image
“[N]early every creationist debater will mention the second law of thermodynamics and argue that complex systems like the earth and life cannot… — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“This is the reality of operating complex systems; no single person can see the whole system and understand how all the pieces… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“we deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as "ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Analysing complexity Analysis of complex systems almost always turns on finding recurring patterns in the system’s ever-changing configurations. The game of chess… — John H. Holland Copy Share Image
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image