I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference,… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I love these appeals to the "complexity of doing business in Alaska." If you want to live in remote villages or places… — Steven Pearlstein Copy Share Image
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the… — Henry Maudslay Copy Share Image
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my… — Geena Rocero Copy Share Image
I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Take one step at a time. A complex problem can be overwhelming, even when you've got your plan mapped out, but remember:… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“Complexity is the prodigy of the world. Simplicity is the sensation of the universe. Behind complexity, there is always simplicity to be… — Idris Mootee Copy Share Image
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
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