Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be so presumptuous as to suggest what my neighbors should or shouldn't do. Great insights might come out… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine… — E. L. Doctorow 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
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out… — W. Brian Arthur 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
I think I'll always feel a little in awe whenever I see someone in their 20s or 30s carrying a cello or… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.” — Phil Dourado 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
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
I think that systems that are based on employment are illogical and attempts to meet them create all sorts of unnecessary complexities. — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
