Complexity Quotes · Page 19

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you…

— Jamie Bell

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

— Paul Dickson

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

— Thane Rosenbaum

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

— Alan Stern

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into…

— Madeleine L'Engle

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a…

— Greg Boyle

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

— Dick Cavett

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

— Stefan Zweig

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that…

— Jessica Valenti

I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and…

— Erin Cressida Wilson

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in…

— Patrick Stump

My hope is that I'm going to continue to make more and more challenging work that's going to come out more and…

— Darren Aronofsky

For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence…

— Jack Welch

I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who…

— Otto Penzler

“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

The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men…

— John Dos Passos

I was a huge fan of this band called Sparks. It was a pretty good inauguration to music since their music is…

— Johan Renck

We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and…

— Patti Smith

It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology…

— Jamie Goode

In 2008 we suffered an economic catastrophe, and the rules of the game fundamentally changed forever. A few years ago, you might…

— Josh Linkner

What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been…

— Annie Dillard

The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that…

— Harrison Ford

This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of…

— Kristin Linklater

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians,…

— James A. Baldwin

“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.”

— David Shenk

If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and…

— Chris Sacca

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

— Andy Stanley

Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.

— Butch Trucks

“I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets.”

— Kerry Greenwood

“As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but…

— Criss Jami

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their…

— John Ralston Saul

“systems theory or, as some people might call it, complexity theory? The simplest explanation is that it is the study of interactions.”

— Rich Jolly

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

— Alan Perlis

“Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.”

— Brian Christian

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the…

— Andy Stanley

There's merit in ministers being just open with the public about the inherent complexity and uncertainty of many of the decisions that…

— David Lidington

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard…

— Richard Branson

Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

— Eric Lander