Complexity Quote by Alan Perlis Download Open image “Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.” — Alan Perlis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complexity Fool Genius Life and love Pragmatists Remove Suffering
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm. — Alex Stamos Copy Share Image
Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There are forms of complexity in all people...Always update your state of mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right. — Ted Waitt 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 it, the… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we… — Aaron Koblin 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 but is… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie. — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
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