For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to - but there's a level of believability… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life,… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about… — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I will help-but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own.… — Sharman Apt Russell Copy Share Image
Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man… — George Will Copy Share Image
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization -… — Reuven Feuerstein Copy Share Image
Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets.… — Kerry Greenwood 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
We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I don't believe you can make an honest film about another person in all their complexities from a place of distance. You… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can… — Harlan Cleveland 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
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
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
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
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
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
Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up… — Margaret Heffernan 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
