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
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
If we have anything in common as humans it's the instinct to survive. When you go in the ring you are going… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I'm not against paying at all. What I'm against is the complexity of paying. And you very often go to a website… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“This is a critical year--maybe the last critical year if we get this wrong--when we are all challenged to recognize how we… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“Complexity is a delicate business. Chemical and molecular bonds require a particular range of temperature in which to operate. Liquid water exists… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood…….… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
People are storytelling creatures. We like stories that go somewhere, and therefore we like trends - because trends are things that either… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
“Don't be fooled by the many books on complexity or by the many complex and arcane algorithms you find in this book… — James Nicholas Gray Copy Share Image
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from… — Philip Nelson Copy Share Image
The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
Of course you have days that are long, you're tired, and things aren't working out, and you can get frustrated, but I… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts… — Peter Wolf Copy Share Image
The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature… Without causation, nothing happens and… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words.… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths--good and… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
