Complexity Quotes

613 quotes by 504 authors

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition. — James Black
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just… — Jonathan Ive
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of… — Ivan Pavlov
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to… — Roderick Murchison
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to… — Noam Chomsky
Business is full of complexities. That's what makes it so interesting. Anyone who thinks it's boring hasn't given it much thought. — Donald Trump
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live… — Ken Burns
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create… — David Hurn
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has… — Susan Sontag
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. — Eugene Wigner
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and… — James A. Baldwin
Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest… — Nicholas von Hoffman
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to… — John Maynard Keynes
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even… — Robert Nozick
We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the… — Ron Paul
Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism. — Michael Shermer
Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it. — Jeff Hawkins
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried. — Chogyam Trungpa

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