Complexity Quotes

Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.

I like exploring life and its complexities.

The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.

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.

I love to work. I love to have complexity.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

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.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

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.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

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

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

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

Growth creates complexity, which requires simplicity.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.