Complex Quotes
1613 quotes by 1299 authors
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I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
— Amy Tan
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Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.
— Keith Devlin
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Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless.…
— John Szarkowski
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People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students…
— Brett Weston
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Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft.…
— Jessie Tarbox Beals
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There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not…
— Susan Meiselas
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I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't.…
— Bernie Ecclestone
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The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally…
— Charles Darwin
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The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.
— Tim Berners-Lee
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If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly,…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of…
— Colin Fletcher
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The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
— Grady Booch
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When we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives gentle promptings. These require us to think, to exercise faith, to work, to struggle…
— Richard G. Scott
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The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just…
— Ricardo Semler
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Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the…
— John Maynard Keynes
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What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they…
— Richard Dawkins
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What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any…
— Wendell Berry
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex…
— Bill Bryson
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