Complexity Quotes

613 quotes by 504 authors

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. — Rollo May
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig… — Steven Pinker
The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity. — L. Ron Hubbard
Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and… — David Steindl-Rast
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance… — Dennis Prager
We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively. — Herbert Benson
You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the… — Peter Wolf
My journey is technical complexity. — Peter Wolf
As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown… — Avi Rubin
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best… — Charles Bartlett Johnson
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. — Richard Schmid
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up… — Steve Jobs
The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate,… — Alan Watts
If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is… — Wendell Berry
The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve… — Wendell Berry
The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more frantic… — William Kittredge
With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born… — John Paul Caponigro
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and… — Dick Gephardt

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