Complexity Quotes

• “Complexity yields resilience.”

  

  Bruce Barcott
  • Resilience
  • Complexity

• The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

  

  William James
  • Simplicity
  • Aim
  • Complexity

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

  

  Mitchell Baker
  • Project
  • Complexity
  • Code

• In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

  

  Steven Weinberg
  • Interesting
  • Simplicity
  • Complexity

• It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Causes
  • Difficulty
  • Complexes

• We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Writing
  • Problem
  • Realizing

• The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Technology
  • Mean

• Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

  

  Russell Baker
  • War
  • Heaven
  • Innocent

• Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

  

  Noah Lukeman
  • Enough
  • Expression
  • Simplicity

• There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bushs presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted from the gut, and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.

  

  Teju Cole
  • War
  • Feelings
  • Appetite

• So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Tree
  • Contribution
  • Scholar

• The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Purpose
  • Complexity
  • Ambiguity

• The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

  

  Whitley Strieber
  • People
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

  

  Deborah Kampmeier
  • Pain
  • Fantasy
  • Sexuality

• All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Ignorance
  • Seems
  • Complexity

• Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.

  

  Wells Tower
  • Thinking
  • Computer
  • Program

• Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Assumption
  • Granted
  • Activist

• I want to give every single character the dimensions and complexity of a main character.

  

  Paul Rust
  • Character
  • Complexity
  • Dimensions

• I'm very thankful I'm finding my way, and people are excited to bring me into roles that demand a certain complexity.

  

  Nicholas D'Agosto
  • Way
  • Roles
  • Complexity

• Reasoned, caring conversations that considered the complexity of other perspectives didn’t get views. Rants did. Outrage did. Simplicity did.

  

  Hank Green
  • Views
  • Complexity
  • Conversations

• Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • People
  • World
  • Simple

• Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

  

  Michael Dirda
  • Clear
  • Message
  • Faithful

• If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Computer
  • Prove
  • Scientist

• I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to them all of the electric complexity. Each one fails at this, of course, but I keep trying - adoring each of them, loving the process, the ebb and flow of it - and each time, the failures fail a bit better.

  

  Alex Lemon
  • Trying
  • Poems
  • Complexity

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