Complexity Quotes - Page 18

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

  Jamais Cascio

  Needs, Decrease, Increase

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• I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Levels, Firsts

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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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• Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

  Leslie Orgel

  Distinguished, Living Organisms, Organisms

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• Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Struggle, Nurse

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Tender is the Night”, p.32, HarperCollins

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• You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

  Larry Tesler

  Tasks, Burden, Programming

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• Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

  David Allen

  Giving, Focus, Doe

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• The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work.

  Jack Heffron

  Hard Work, Validation, Ideas

  Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.13, Writer's Digest Books

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• The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

  Bill Gates

  Block, Caring, Impact

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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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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• I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

  Gordon Willis

  Simple, Way, Human Nature

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• Complexity is the enemy of execution!

  Tony Robbins

  Enemy, Execution

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

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• Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

  Stephen Covey

  Simplicity, Principles, Sides

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Intriguing, Trouble, Intellect

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• The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

  Alan Watts

  Impossible, Process, Fortune

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• Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Simple, Simplicity, Jargon

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• We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Thinking, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.52, New World Library

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• Simplicity is complexity resolved

  Constantin Brancusi

  Simplicity

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• Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.

  Victor LaValle

  Beautiful, Daughter, Father

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• Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.

  Dan Wells

  Creativity, World, Embrace

  Dan Wells (2013). “Fragments (Partials, Book 2)”, p.279, HarperCollins UK

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• I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

  Joy Bryant

  Children, Parent, Plight

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• Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides with defined sequences it is not unreasonable to hope that all these points will be clarified in the near future, and that the genetic code will be completely established on a sound experimental basis within a few years.

  Francis Crick

  Dna, Years, Sound

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