“..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.” — Walter Martin 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
Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice. — Peter Dale Scott Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“For what is the human body, with its branching veins and winding bowels and many-chambered heart, if not a Labyrinth?” — Seamus Sullivan Copy Share Image
Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles.… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
“Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I… — Alejandro Escovedo Copy Share Image
None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government,… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“We need to learn more. We need to do better. We are all woven together in the fabric of the Earth and… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful... — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.” — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“Everything was intertwined, with the complexity of a three-dimensional puzzle, a puzzle in which truth was not necessarily fact and fact not… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation. — Kim Hee-jin Copy Share Image
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy. — John Green Copy Share Image
I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
