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It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.

Michael Zaslow

Love, Littles, Sony

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In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the presidency and both houses of Congress. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have no plan to take on Wall Street, the Fed, the military-industrial complex, social insurance or the nation’s fiscal calamity and no plan to revive capitalist prosperity - just empty sermons.

David Stockman

Wall, Military, Math

"Paul Ryan's Fairy-Tale Budget Plan". www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2012.

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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Charles C. Mann

Visitors, Explaining, Complex Systems

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My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

Henry Taube

Chicago, Aspect, Interest

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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Dalia Mogahed

Hero, People, Simplification

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A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

Mark Kurlansky

Portraits, Haiti, Great Experiences

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We live in a very complex world.

Vinton Cerf

World

"Vint Cerf: Concerns over packets and politics". Interview with John Blau, www.infoworld.com. October 25, 2004.

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What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

Donald A. Norman

Simple, Numbers, Devices

Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.40, MIT Press

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One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

Jesse Ball

Might, Pairs, Events

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An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.

William Kingdon Clifford

Struggle, Atmosphere, Belief

William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.199, Cambridge University Press

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It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we have no shortage of perfectly good reasons for why we just happen to be doing the same thing as those other people; they mindlessly conform, but we mindfully choose. This doesn't mean that we're all conformists in denial. It means that we regularly fail to recognize that others' thoughts and behaviors are just as complex and varied as our own. Rather than being alone in a crowd of sheep, we're all individuals in sheep's clothing.

Sheena Iyengar

Mean, Perfectly Good, Sheep

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In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.

Tony Hoare

Powerful, Real, Learning

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What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.

Tony Hoare

Art, Learning, Simple

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Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

Niklaus Wirth

Strong, Believe, Learning

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On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Wilhelm Wundt

Hands, Psychology, Individual

Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

Christoph Niemann

Essence, Simplicity, Design

"The Story of My App" by Christoph Niemann, www.newyorker.com. March 18, 2013.

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There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

Gordon Bethune

Watches, Aviation, Airline

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When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by it's dualities. A yogi who perceives his real self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Dream, Real, Men

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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Beautiful, Discovery, Overwhelmed

R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.19, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Julia Glass

Crazy, Writing, World

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We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

Ernest Becker

Men, Mad, Cost

Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data—something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.

Silas House

Hate, Heart, Eye

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What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

William Ross Ashby

Goal, Important, Behaviour

William Ross Ashby (1956). “An Introduction to Cybernetics. (1. Publ.)”

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Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.

Roger Caillois

Expectations, Challenges, Secret

Roger Caillois (1985). “The writing of stones”, Univ of Virginia Pr

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The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

Clay Shirky

Principles, Problem, Dedicated

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