Complexity Quote by Christopher Alexander Download Open image “Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.” — Christopher Alexander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complexity Design Engineering Environmental
To embrace complexity is to treasure diversity. To eliminate uncertainties is to limit possibilities. Be ready to walk out of your comfort zone for… — Kelvin Chau Copy Share Image
Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing… — Tarun J. Tejpal Copy Share Image
The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Reality consists of sets of interacting problems, systems of problems we call “messes.” As previously noted, problems are abstractions extracted from reality by analysis.… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
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