Complexity Quotes

613 quotes by 504 authors

I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with… — Jose Manuel Barroso
You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay… — Drew Bledsoe
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. — Mitchell Baker
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a… — Bram Cohen
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level… — David Deutsch
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence… — William A. Dembski
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does. — Lawrence Bossidy
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge… — Chris Sacca
The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity. — Richard Dawkins
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile
It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great… — Edward T. Hall
I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their… — Sue Grafton
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex. — Etgar Keret
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns… — Hari Kunzru
(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply… — Ilya Prigogine
Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really… — Lew Welch
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract… — Ada Lovelace
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillantâ€™s brilliant non-fiction about humankindâ€™s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now… — John Burnham Schwartz
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays… — Alison McGhee

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