Quotes with complexity

  • Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
  • The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
  • Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
  • Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
  • The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
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  • Bradley Denton A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Don DeLillo As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
    (2005)
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Billy Collins Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Abdus Salam From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
    Abdus Salam
    Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926 - 1996)
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  • Audre Lorde I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Ben Marcus Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Lionel Trilling Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Bram Cohen My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Doug Horton The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Alice Munro The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Demick We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bryan Singer 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 - so we can help prevent it.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems - sometimes without spending a penny.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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