Complexity Quotes
You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.
Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues.
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.
The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.
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.
The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.
You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.
Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.
For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.
The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.
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.
Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
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.
Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.
Some people perceive Skinner to be complex. I just basically was trying to remember my lines, so I guess that's what they perceive as being complexity.
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.
The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.
The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.
Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.
O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
