I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always… — Jack Coleman 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi… — Erna Paris Copy Share Image
“The cell has biological machines at work in it that have separate functions that all have to operate together simultaneously in order… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
Over time, I started becoming more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort… — Moby 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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and… — Nolan Bushnell 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
“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom… — Kevin Kelly 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
