C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
Nancy Kress -
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Felix Adler -
You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
Gary Ross -
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
Jack Dorsey -
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Dan Simmons
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I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
Oscar Peterson -
Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
P. J. O'Rourke -
Les utopies ne sont souvent que des verités prématurées.
Alphonse de Lamartine -
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
Aldo Leopold -
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Jean Rostand
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I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don't give up.
Marjorie Liu -
My first proper relationship was at 16 in college.
Varun Dhawan -
I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then.
Geoff Dyer -
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
Charles de Lint -
All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
Bill Bryson -
''Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.'
Philip K. Dick
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Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.
Bill Gates -
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
Thomas Sowell -
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
Albert Einstein -
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
C. Northcote Parkinson