Complexity Quotes

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Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today,… — Robertson Davies
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The… — David Gelernter
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If… — Leslie Lamport
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
The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way… — Fernando J. Corbato
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful... — Michelle Obama
Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves. — Madeleine L'Engle
We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don't want to have 20… — Sergey Brin
The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity. — Richard Koch
The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the… — Freeman Dyson
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity. — Benoit Mandelbrot
The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All… — Bruce Eckel
Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface — Alexander Stepanov
Regardless of what crisis or complexity may be threatening to engulf your life, God is at work. You may not see it, but you need… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects… — Greg Kramer
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. — Kenneth Tynan
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S.… — Dave Barry
"With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow… — Stephen Hawking
Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not… — George F. R. Ellis
There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or… — Andy Hargreaves

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