Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex. — Walter Bender Copy Share Image
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy. — I. J. Good Copy Share Image
The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most… — Seymour S. Kety Copy Share Image
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The problem is not in the food... The problem lies in the mind. It lies in our lack of awareness of the… — Jan Chozen Bays Copy Share Image
Writing a song isn't that hard. Writing a good song is difficult. Let's face it, we're faced with taking a complex feeling… — Ann Reed Copy Share Image
It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth… — Paul Zollo Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
You've got this world, these pathologists that are, day in and day out, taking apart bodies, coming up with theories about how… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design,… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
