One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral… — V. Vale Copy Share Image
We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got… — Scott E. Page Copy Share Image
Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who… — Sam Crawford Copy Share Image
Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making… — Tom Kundig 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
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We love a world in which the people in the white hats get rewarded and the people in the black hats pay… — Rebecca M. Blank Copy Share Image
I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I… — Jeff Kendrick Copy Share Image
As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the… — Floyd E. Bloom Copy Share Image
It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why… — Page Smith Copy Share Image
With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you… — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ… — William James 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
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
In the teen years, we often confuse self-image with self-esteem. Teenagers are very influenced by the image others have of them. All… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas,… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear. — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
