Complexity Quotes

613 quotes by 504 authors

I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple… — Jorge Luis Borges
It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not… — Vladimir Lenin
Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is… — James Gunn
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives. — Jamais Cascio
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith
When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look… — Jeff VanderMeer
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars… — Henry Louis Gates
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace… — William Gibson
We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a… — Stephen Jay Gould
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. — Confucius
When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to… — Willem Dafoe
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is… — Richard Dawkins
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of… — Richard Dawkins
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. — Rita Dove
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a… — David Eagleman
But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is a considerable experience. — Roger Ebert
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. — Brian Eno
Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the drug dealers and… — Lupe Fiasco
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. — Mohsin Hamid

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