Complexity Quotes - Page 17

• Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Way Forward, Poverty, Size

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.158, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Years, Ideas, People

  "The Creative Personality". www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The basic assumption of the work is that everyone possesses a voice capable of expressing, through a two- to four-octave natural pitch range, whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood, and subtlety of thought he or she experiences.

  Kristin Linklater

  Expression, Two, Voice

  Kristin Linklater (2006). “Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language”, Nick Hern Books

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• A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

  Freeman Dyson

  Taken, Simplicity, Done

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• You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.

  John de Ruiter

  Cities, Needs, Awakening

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• I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it.' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing ... this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.

  Chinua Achebe

  Believe, Thinking, Perspective

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• It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, Understanding, Agribusiness

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.71, Counterpoint

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• As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Reality, Uncomfortable

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• Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Understanding, Tasks

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• Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Growth, Progress, Doe

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• Out of complexity, find simplicity!

  Albert Einstein

  Simplicity

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• We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

  B. W. Powe

  Communication, Technology, Culture

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• The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Lying, Simplicity

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• The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Fundamentals, Development, Way

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• The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

  Anthony Doerr

  Narrative Structure, Miracle, Chocolate

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths - good and terrible, overwhelming and miniscule. To eat passionately is to allow the world in; there can be no hiding or sublimation when you're chewing a mouthful of food so good it makes you swoon.

  Kate Christensen

  World, Taste, Hiding

  "Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites". Book by Kate Christensen, www.npr.org. July 9, 2013.

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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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• The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Pay, Life Is, Pining

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.

  Roger Kimball

  Simplicity, May

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• Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.

  George Will

  Thoughtful, Men, Clouds

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• Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

  Jamais Cascio

  Needs, Decrease, Increase

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• Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

  Donald A. Norman

  Technology, Simplicity, Design

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• The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Views, Mysterious

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• It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless whole. There are profound limits to science that must be recognized if we are to minimize the destructive consequences of using the powers provided by scientific discovery.

  David Suzuki

  Truth, Discovery, Profound

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• In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

  Wesley Morris

  Patience, Perception, Youth

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