Complex Quotes

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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations… — Ibrahim Babangida
All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult, — Sam Walton
In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation, which is the… — Ralph Abraham
Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring… — Mark Batterson
The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their… — Paul Hawken
We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them. — Tsutomu Shimomura
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to… — Eugene Wigner
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had… — Oscar Wilde
The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for… — Dolores LaChapelle
The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers. — Bernd Sturmfels
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that… — Hal Abelson
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify… — David Gelernter
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition… — Tony Hoare
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?… — Tony Hoare
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after… — Richard E. Pattis
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve… — Niklaus Wirth
On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are… — Wilhelm Wundt
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.… — Gordon Allport
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. — Wilhelm Wundt

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