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 Copy Share Image
In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity. — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years. — Jeff McNeely Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and… — James Black Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost. — Thomas Eisner Copy Share Image
The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“To love is to think. And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her. I don’t know what I want… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“But theory rarely works in practice, and predictability has a devious sister named complexity. But” — Jurgen Appelo Copy Share Image
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils… — Jim Toomey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.” — Christopher Caudwell Copy Share Image
Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be… — Michael Behe 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
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web? — E. B. White Copy Share Image
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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