Complexity Quotes · Page 17

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles;…

— Michael Loceff

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do…

— Richard Schmid

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

— Donald A. Norman

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free,…

— Gary Ross

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

— Stefan Zweig

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a…

— Greg Boyle

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

— Dick Cavett

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

— Alan Stern

A single neuron in the brain is an incredibly complex machine that even today we don't understand. A single 'neuron' in a…

— Andrew Ng

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a…

— Dean Koontz

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater…

— Jason Silva

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my…

— Cheryl Strayed

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the…

— David Christian

The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves…

— Kenny Smith

I have more than thirty thousand hours of family and relationship counseling experience under my belt. Over the years, I have seen…

— Esther Perel

“Who gave the decisive deathblow to the argument from design on the basis of biological complexity? Both philosophers and biologists are divided…

— Maarten Boudry

There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a…

— Marcel Proust

Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II.…

— Len Morgan

My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost…

— Joyce Tenneson

One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before…

— Anonymous

The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter…

— Peter Turchi

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

— Thane Rosenbaum

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

— Paul Dickson

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you…

— Jamie Bell

A lie cant be covered by another lie. As it stacks up one after another, things just get more and more complicated.

— Anonymous

The glory of sport is born at the moment when the game and the person become one, when all the complexity of…

— Timothy Shriver

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

— Kevin Kelly

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that…

— Boris Beizer

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

— Tom Hiddleston

Complexity emerges from unexpected outcomes it is also used as a tool of repression.

— Anonymous

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

— Junot Diaz

We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are…

— Winston Churchill

“A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.”

— Paul Valéry

I think the American landscape is a very special thing. There's a kind of complexity and solemnness within it.

— Taylor Russell

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and…

— William Blake