Complexity Quotes · Page 12

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they…

— Kwame Dawes

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

— Jan de Bont

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

— Charles Kingsley

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

— Caroline Knapp

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

— Gordon Willis

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters…

— Anonymous

“Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.”

— Timothy Ferriss

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the…

— Lupe Fiasco

I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know…

— Ray Stevenson

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets…

— John Sculley

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often…

— Dana Gioia

I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website…

— Nicholas Negroponte

The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that…

— Terence McKenna

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as…

— Henry Louis Gates

If we have anything in common as humans it's the instinct to survive. When you go in the ring you are going…

— Teddy Atlas

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world…

— Warren G. Bennis

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance…

— Neil Gaiman

That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency.…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For…

— Terry Eagleton

By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or…

— George Santayana

At the end of the day, I really go with my personal taste and with what's on the page in terms of…

— Carmen Ejogo

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone,…

— Umberto Eco

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the…

— Pat Conroy

“But theory rarely works in practice, and predictability has a devious sister named complexity. But”

— Jurgen Appelo

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

— Thomas Eisner

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and…

— James Black

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

— Fernando Perez

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be…

— Michael Behe

“Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.”

— Phil Dourado

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

— E. B. White

I'm often forced to draw a lot of tiny panels due to the limited number of pages and the complexity of the…

— George Perez

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in…

— Edward Thorndike

Some people perceive Skinner to be complex. I just basically was trying to remember my lines, so I guess that's what they…

— Mitch Pileggi

I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils…

— Jim Toomey

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

— Hilary Liftin

“Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.”

— Christopher Caudwell

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely…

— Plato