Complexity Quotes
613 quotes by 504 authors
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
— Alfred Austin
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie…
— Russell Baker
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to…
— Christian Bale
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring…
— Antonio Banderas
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
— Emily Blunt
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when…
— Edward de Bono
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine…
— Nolan Bushnell
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
— Paul Cezanne
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the waters, nature led…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something…
— Margaret Meagher
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A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity…
— Dalai Lama
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Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
— Bill Gates
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of…
— Andre Gide
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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of…
— William J. Clinton
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What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity…
— Warren G. Bennis
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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form…
— Joseph Weizenbaum
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I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by…
— George C. Marshall
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