Complexity Quote by Roger Kimball Download Open image “Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.” — Roger Kimball ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complexity Inspirational May Simplicity
And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity. — Will Wright Copy Share Image
Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure — Dean Cavanagh 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
Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation. — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
“History,” Bagehot wrote, “is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
“The true democrat wishes to share the great works of culture with all who are able to appreciate them; the egalitarian, recognizing that genuine… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
“And let’s not forget “Dane-Geld”: It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
“(Some people regard the astonishing collapse of manners and civility in our society as a superficial event. They are wrong. The fate of decorum… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
“What is not possible is to combine the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of comfort with the characteristic pleasures of a strong mind.… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of guilt about… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
“The institutionalization of the radical ethos in the academy has brought with it not only an increasing politicization of the humanities, but also an… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a fragile and vulnerable quality, and moreover one that is difficult to achieve; ugliness, by contrast, is unbreakable and invulnerable, and very… — Roger Kimball 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