People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
But in a TV series, you can really take a novelistic approach and explore characters that you wouldn't ordinarily see, in a… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead.… — Lord Palmerston Copy Share Image
The brain has this amazing level of almost fractal complexity to it. When you start looking at any part of it in… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable… — John Zachman Copy Share Image
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I believe that almost all important, useful ideas are simple. Peter Whittle has recently put it nicely in an autobiographical essay. "If… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
“There is risk, known and unknown, in all aspects of life. We often consider the loss of life the only serious risk.… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Today there are a huge number of think tanks working on poverty-related issues; there are books written on the topic; and university… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Business schools need to help students learn how to thrive under pressure. To understand themselves and their psychological vulnerability that might inhibit… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
Achieving the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement are not a given. The world needs to understand the urgency and complexity… — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity.… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase… — Gilbert Newton Lewis Copy Share Image
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that… — Pamela Nicholson Copy Share Image
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Players enjoy complexity – especially the power that comes with powerful tools. What they do not like is “uninteresting decisions,” or games… — Kurt Squire Copy Share Image
“Life as we know, and partially understand it, is a classical example of what can occur when a sufficient level of complexity… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then… — Moby Copy Share Image
For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
