Complexity Quotes - Page 13

• Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Animal, Garden, Ponds

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• To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding.

  Ken Wilber

  Circles, Understanding, Chaos

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.200, Shambhala Publications

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• Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

  Spalding Gray

  Chaos

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• I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Lying, Men, Differences

  B. F. Skinner (1990). “The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis”, p.466, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

  Max Horkheimer

  Perception, World, Connections

  Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.133, A&C Black

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• The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Decision, Add, Mobility

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.74, Best Books on

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• You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

  Zaha Hadid

  Art, White, Kind

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• Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Motivation, Inspiration, Believe

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• Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

  Margaret Heffernan

  Data, Ideas, Giving

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• Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

  Steven Levitt

  Powerful, Thinking, Data

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.

  Christine Caine

  Christian, Challenges, Champion

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Sep 23, 2014

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• So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

  Plato

  Plato, Reality, Giving

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• It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.

  Peter Coveney

  Unique, Thinking, Space

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• And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, “Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Space, Steps, Needs

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• There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If the race is won by our tools, then systems will eventually become easier to use and more reliable. If not, they will continue to become harder to use and less reliable for all but a relatively small set of common tasks. Given how hard thinking is, if those intellectual tools are to succeed, they will have to substitute calculation for thought.

  Leslie Lamport

  Learning, Thinking, Race

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• Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

  Ken Wilber

  Consciousness

  Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard, Marco Morelli (2008). “Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Simplicity, Design, Important

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• To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Soul, Peculiar, Movement

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)”, p.257, The Overlook Press

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• Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.

  Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

  Understanding, Trends, Dynamics

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• Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Marriage, Self, Woven

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the interplay of these systems. Our health care, to be truly effective, must acknowledge and address this complexity and interconnectedness – and also the effect we have on each other.

  Ann Scott

  Mind, Body, Care

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• In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world.

  Laurance Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Men, Needs

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• I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the gas and turn left. In fact, it's probably one of the most complex sports in existence.

  Janet Guthrie

  Sports, Passion, Thinking

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• Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.

  Marc Benioff

  Past, Want, Traditional

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• 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.

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Believe, People, Simplicity

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