Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable… — John Zachman Copy Share Image
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It… — Suzanne Massie Copy Share Image
To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase… — Gilbert Newton Lewis Copy Share Image
Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that… — Pamela Nicholson Copy Share Image
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Life as we know, and partially understand it, is a classical example of what can occur when a sufficient level of complexity… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Players enjoy complexity – especially the power that comes with powerful tools. What they do not like is “uninteresting decisions,” or games… — Kurt Squire Copy Share Image
What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Business schools need to help students learn how to thrive under pressure. To understand themselves and their psychological vulnerability that might inhibit… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
Achieving the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement are not a given. The world needs to understand the urgency and complexity… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity.… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans)… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
You have to record as many details as possible and achieve an order, without taking away the complexity of the real. To… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image