I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill. — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea? — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex.… — Bart Starr Copy Share Image
But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business. — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can… — Martinus Beijerinck Copy Share Image
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image