The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety,… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
The prince in 'The Leopard' was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding… — Luchino Visconti Copy Share Image
The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways,… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority… — Pierre Daninos Copy Share Image
The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Companies are actually much better than governments and other bureaucracies at organizing in a holistically efficient way the extremely complex path from… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena;… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened,… — Benjamin Avila Copy Share Image
Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal… — Christoph Niemann Copy Share Image
What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only… — Neil Gershenfeld Copy Share Image
Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short,… — Sandra Postel Copy Share Image
The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time - a time of great… — Sting Copy Share Image
Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way,… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
The tie is stronger than that between father and son and father and daughter. The bond is also more complex than the… — Carol Klein Copy Share Image
Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and… — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that… — Josephine Decker Copy Share Image
People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
