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
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
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
“..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.” — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
Love is like a puzzle, the pieces are always in front of you, but it's a matter of time and patience to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes… — Michael Hersch 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
People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred… — Bradley Denton 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
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“You’re different, and I know that’s probably the most cliché response ever given, but it’s the truth. When I look at you,… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Complexity looks at simplicity and laughs at it for being too simple. But this is stupidity. Which is more valuable? The drop… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The living cell is the most complex system of its size known to mankind. Its host of specialized molecules, many found nowhere… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from… — Moby Copy Share Image
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but attractiveness is complex, made up of both static and dynamic qualities, and both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity? — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Challenging the Research Base of the Common Core State Standards A Historical Reanalysis of Text Complexity By” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.” — Doris P. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The Complexity Trap: Every problem gets solved by adding more …more meetings, more approval, more process. Until the solution becomes worse than… — Greg Born Copy Share Image
We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity. — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives. — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities. — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image