Complexity Quotes - Page 2

• To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Leadership, Integrity, Taken

  "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

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• Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nature, Lying, Science

  "Benoît Mandelbrot obituary' by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Energy, Attention

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

  Douglas Horton

  Art, Simplicity, Simple Life

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• My goal is to simplify complexity.

  Jack Dorsey

  Goal, Simplify

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

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• The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Simplicity, Evolution

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Handbook for Preclears”, p.207, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Technology, Computer, Responsible

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• Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.

  Andre Comte-Sponville

  Simple, Thinking, Rose

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• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Life, Simple, Greed

  Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

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• There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

  Cynthia Hand

  Heart, Human Heart, Humans

  Cynthia Hand (2012). “Hallowed”, p.20, Egmont UK

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• The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Simple, Steel, Complexity Of Human

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• If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

  George Friedman

  Battle, Rage, Losing Yourself

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think it's so important to remember the complexity of things.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Thinking, Important, Remember

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

  Atul Gawande

  Understanding, Alternatives, World

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• The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.

  Gregory Bateson

  Spiritual, Emotional, Hands

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• From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

  Abdus Salam

  Men, Term, Concepts

  Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.378, World Scientific

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• I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.

  Stephen Hawking

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

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• We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Struggle, Simplicity

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• Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Mean, Simple

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• When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.

  William J. Clinton

  God, Science, Understanding

  "Remarks on the Completion of the First Survey of the Human Genome". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 2000.

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• 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

  Mean, Technology, Opposites

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.10, Basic Books

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• Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

  Ben Huh

  Business, Simplicity, Marketing

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  Ralph Marston

  Doe, Want, Matter

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• Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.

  Chris Brogan

  People, Ego, Able

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