Complex Quotes

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The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the… — Mario Savio
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime,… — Roger Caillois
Leadership is based on complex phenomena. — Rakesh Khurana
The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to,… — Clay Shirky
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. — Mario Savio
If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well… — Sigurd F. Olson
As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed… — Edward Bernays
Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded. — Stuart Kauffman
At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting… — Steve Womack
At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships.… — Ralph Steadman
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has… — John Ralston Saul
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you â€“… — Eli Pariser
In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all. — Eli Pariser
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another. — Keith Devlin
I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to… — Paul Stamets
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But… — Ben Goldacre
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness… — Virginia Woolf
How wonderful it is that we believe in modern revelation. I cannot get over the feeling that if revelation were needed anciently, when life was… — Gordon B. Hinckley
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do… — Howard Zinn
Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives, how we depend… — Dalai Lama

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