Complexity Quotes

613 quotes by 504 authors

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie. — Jan de Bont
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are… — John W. Thompson
Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity. — Lester Levenson
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity. — Thane Rosenbaum
My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature… — Michael Loceff
I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at… — Michael Loceff
The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure… — Jamie Bell
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision… — Annie Dillard
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy,… — May Sarton
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility… — Stephanie Mills
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population.… — Thomas Sowell
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just… — Thomas Sowell
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold
The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not… — Chogyam Trungpa
One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity. — Brian Eno
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. — Paul Cezanne
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. — Paul Dickson
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human… — Northrop Frye

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