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• There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

  Vannevar Bush

  People, Affair, Plenty

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Fall, Categories

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• I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

  James Patterson

  Life Is, Plans, Knows

  James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”

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• As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Urban Renewal, Years

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.13, Vintage

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• In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Pieces, Steam

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, don’t do that, or I believe, I don’t believe.

  Hari Kunzru

  Fashion, Believe, Writing

  "Starting into the void with Hari Kunzru" by Rollo Roming, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.

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• The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception.  All you can do is play melody.  No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Play, Voice

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• A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Good Movie, Enjoyable

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• He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

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• People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

  Robert Greene

  People, Society, Mask

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2014

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• The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

  Ron Carlson

  Heart, Tolerance, Stories

  Ron Carlson (2007). “Ron Carlson Writes a Story”, Graywolf Press

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• Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.

  Allen Lacy

  People, Healthy, Gardening

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• A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

  Leo Frankowski

  Beautiful, Simple, Talking

  Leo Frankowski (2004). “Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior”, p.155, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

  Hideki Yukawa

  Reality, Justification, Conclusion

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• Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

  George Santayana

  Miracle, Religion, Causes

  The Ethics of Spinoza introduction (1910)

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• The minute they become a partner in the Palestinian government, reality will become a lot more complicated for them than when they were a terror organization alone.

  Avi Dichter

  Reality, Government, Organization

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• Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.

  John Landgraf

  Stars, Real, Winning

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• Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it

  Marissa Mayer

  Home, Army, Simple

  "The Beauty of Simplicity", www.fastcompany.com. November 1, 2005.

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• As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Running, Team, Simple

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• And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.

  Jason Reitman

  Thank You, Air, Smoking

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• Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Deceit, Culture, Conflict

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• Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Love Is, Heaven

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• Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Agency, Brain, May

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• You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to be clear, precise, outlined neatly. Life is complicated; it consists of grace and sin. He who does not sin is not human. We all make mistakes and we need to recognise our weakness. A religious who recognises himself as weak and a sinner does not negate the witness that he is called to give, rather he reinforces it, and this is good for everyone. What I expect of you therefore is to give witness. I want this special witness from religious.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Real, Mistake

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• Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

  Jack White

  Simple, Way, Life Is

  "Aviate, Navigate, Communicate". faso.com. March 20, 2014.

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