Complexes Quotes - Page 19

• Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Hands, Special

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.769, Race Point Pub

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• So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Spirit, Action

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company”, p.140, Booklassic

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• Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich and fulfilling and that has an end that is perfectly fulfilling, and that has an end that is perfect for that character, and the audience will love it.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Character, Journey, Perfect

  "‘Hunted’ creator Frank Spotnitz on his new Cinemax drama & ‘The X-Files’ legacy". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Simple, Incentives, Regulation

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• In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

  Nicholas Lemann

  People, Interesting, Focus

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.

  Miles Millar

  Technology, Challenges, Asian

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Expression, Feelings, Desire

  Alfred North Whitehead (1925). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge”

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• I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Style, Listening

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• Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated.

  Noam Chomsky

  Simple, Understanding, Matter

  "Science in the Dock". Discussion with Noam Chomsky, Lawrence Krauss & Sean M. Carroll in "Science & Technology News", chomsky.info. March 1, 2006.

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• In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

  Michael Crichton

  Ideas, World, Modern

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness of the residents. Because they had no rich lives beyond the hospital, they assumed no one else did, either. In the end, what they lacked was not medical knowledge but ordinary life experience.

  Michael Crichton

  Rich Life, Medical Knowledge, Facts

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.108, Vintage

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• The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Personality, Unhappy

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Analysis, World

  ABC TV Interview with Mike Wallace, www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

  Denis Diderot

  Order, Perfection, World

  "Book by Denis Diderot". Book by Denis Diderot, 1749.

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• Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.

  William Zinsser

  Running, Determination, Character

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• Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more.  It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison.  In fact it is us.  Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Persistence, Ego

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• "History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Past, Events, Analogies

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• Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

  David Parnas

  Goal, Want, Complexity

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• The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

  Noam Chomsky

  Engineering, America, Construction

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• From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Real, Government

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• Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Simple

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• Morality is not a simple set of rules. It's a very complex struggle of conflicting patterns of values. This conflict is the residue of evolution. As new patters evolve they come into conflict with old ones. Each stage of evolution creates in its wake a wash of problems.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Simple, Patterns

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Girl, Mean, Fighting

  "Yousafzai The Observer How young heroines helped redefine girlhood as a state of strength" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2013.

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• The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  World, Theory

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different perspective. It's not just an advertisement with one single message that has some authority, political or not.

  Camille Henrot

  Art, Perspective, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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