Complexity Quotes · Page 13

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

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

“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

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

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

— Thomas Eisner

One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist…

— Morgan Freeman

I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of…

— Wesley Morris

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what…

— Duane Michals

The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep…

— Vera Nazarian

“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object…

— Michael Denton

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence…

— Jack Welch

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in…

— Patrick Stump

We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last.…

— Ron Paul

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also…

— Howard Zinn

A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another.…

— Fritjof Capra

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity…

— Anne Rice

In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within…

— Anonymous

We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their…

— Henry Mintzberg

Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or…

— DJ Spooky

“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a…

— Alain de Botton

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

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the…

— Thomas Sowell

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

— Niklaus Wirth

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

— Dean Cavanagh

“because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work,”

— Malcolm Gladwell

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

— Adrienne Rich

Life is such a rolling coaster, either you roll with it willingly or it roll you unwillingly, but you must roll either…

— Blaze Olamiday

Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.

— Chris Brogan

It's easy to talk about digitalising things; it's quite difficult to do in a B2B environment. It's hard to digitalise that complexity.

— Soren Skou

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored…

— Heinz Pagels

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

— Julian Jarrold

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and…

— Timothy Olyphant