Complexity Quotes - Page 5

• I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

  Paul Cezanne

  Progress, Form, Incessant

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• When you are in a hole, stop digging!

  Bill McKibben

  Digging A Hole, Climate Change, Holes

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2016

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• I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

  Richard Roxburgh

  Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

  Ken Burns

  Photography, Drama, People

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• What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it &#Array; so we can help prevent it.

  Bryan Singer

  Respect, Mean, Evil

  "Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer". www.ign.com. December 9, 2002.

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• The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

  Marsha Mason

  Emotional, Play, Emotional Life

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• The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.

  Mitchell Baker

  Lines, Mozilla, Projects

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

  Rob Pike

  Simple, Complicated, Modern

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• There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

  Pat Buchanan

  Attitude, Communication, Simplicity

  "Right from the Beginning". Book by Patrick Buchanan,, 1988.

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• I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Science

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

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• The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

  Tom Robbins

  Simplicity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.238, Bantam

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• Growth creates complexity, which requires simplicity.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Simplicity, Growth

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• Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Rooms, Humans

  "Daniel Radcliffe's Life After Harry". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. January 07, 2012.

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• Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  World, Matter, Entropy

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.126, Penguin

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• My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

  Jack Dorsey

  Goal, Want, Stuff

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Discovery, Together

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Phenomenon of Man”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature's laws.

  John Lighton Synge

  Life, Beautiful, Ocean

  John Lighton Synge (1957). “Kandelman's Krim: A Realistic Fantasy”

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• Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

  Heinz Pagels

  Science, Land, Exploration

  Heinz R. Pagels (1988). “The dreams of reason: the computer and the rise of the sciences of complexity”, Simon & Schuster

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• No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

  George Nelson

  Attitude, Integrity, Design

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• Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?

  Lew Welch

  Circles, Feet, Steps

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• In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.

  John Tukey

  Thinking, Data, Simplicity

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• Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

  Bill Watterson

  Men, Risk, Ignorant

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• we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.

  Jose Saramago

  Identity, Coherence, Wasting Time

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• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  J. William Fulbright

  Change, Thinking, World

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• Simplicity and complexity need each other.

  John Maeda

  Simplicity, Needs

  John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.45, MIT Press

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