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“Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.”

“The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.”

Littles Too Much Caring Complexity Barriers

“If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one! And that's the way to become a computer scientist.”

Ifs Way Done Turns Fun Stuff One Day Prove Computer Solutions Scientist Complexity

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.”

Men Simplicity Complexity

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, even if they get a hook on them. It's more about instinctively knowing whether you like somebody or not.”

Ifs Knows Humans Littles Character Human Beings Knowing Complexity Subtle Hook Subtext

Author:Ray Stevenson

“Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.”

Helping Seems Turns Brain Quality Risk Fields Revolution Tools Productivity Complexity Aviation Gaps Construction Engineering Combining High Risk Checklists

Author:Atul Gawande

“Complexity - limits competition.”

Limits Competition Complexity

Author:Seth Klarman

“Where you have complexity, by nature you can have fraud and mistakes. You'll have more of that than in a company that shovels sand from a river and sells it. This will always be true of financial companies, including ones run by governments. If you want accurate numbers from financial companies, you're in the wrong world.”

Ifs World Want Government Running Numbers Mistake Company Rivers Sells Including Financial Being True Complexity Sand Fraud Accurate Shovels

Author:Charlie Munger

“The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.”

People Feels Answers Existence Tragedy Speed Complexity Disturbed Velocity

Author:David Whyte

“Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

Should Firsts Doe Evolution First Time Built Simplicity Complexity Hinder Top Down Optimization

Author:Alan Perlis

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

Care Locals Manage Complexity Sustainability Agriculture

Author:Vandana Shiva

“The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?”

Ifs Done Form Millions Citizens Taxes Creating Ordinary Red Income Complexity Tape Penalties Bureaucracy Income Tax Accountants Red Tape Perjury Ordinary Citizens

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.”

Men Values Class Clear Building He Man Trade Competition Clarity Preserves Complexity Academic Outsiders Privileged Obscurity Treachery Apprenticeship Scabs

Book:Annals of an Abiding Liberal

Source: Annals of an Abiding Liberal

“Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.”

Language Imagination Aim Complexity Elitism

Author:John Ralston Saul

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

Choices Found Complexity Meaningless Multiplicity Less Is More

Book:The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America

Source: The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America

“The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.”

Simplicity Complexity

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.”

Knows Art Philosophy Age Moving Law Culture Universe Mathematics Structure Code Complexity Openness Chemicals Genes Phases Domain Confined Philosophy Of Religion Moving Out Art Dance

Author:Terence McKenna

“Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.”

Needs Wells Children Important Care Moral Modern Core Vulnerable Well Being Complexity Modern Life Touchstones Love And Care

Book:It Takes a Village

Source: It Takes a Village

“The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.”

Mind Mean Ideas Order Consciousness Mystery Civilization Drug Relate Complexity Something New Relevant Psychedelic

Author:Terence McKenna

“What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.”

Thinking Giving Levels Fairs Credit Complexity Psychedelic Psychedelic Experience

Author:Terence McKenna

“This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.”

Law Universe Greater Complexity Engines Novelty Overlooked Conserving

Author:Terence McKenna

“If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.”

People Ifs Knows World Two Political Speak Language Social Hours Talking Economic Complexity Reporters Seventies Know It All

Book:Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

“I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.”

Different Character Bored Complexity Layers Richness

Author:Julian Jarrold

“I'm inordinately proud of Smash, on so many levels. The complexity of producing that show, every week, is just incredible. As a television producer and as a Broadway producer, which I once was, I am in awe of what we can do on that show, every week.”

Shows Can Do Levels Week Television Proud Incredibles Producers Complexity Awe Broadway

Author:Robert Greenblatt

“It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).”

Thinking Two Stories Action Film Levels Responsibility Add Complexity

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“When people want to sound smart, they add syllables to words, words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to books. They try to make up in quantity and complexity what they lack in quality. That's bullshit! They're just hiding their bullshit!”

People Want Trying Book Sound Quality Smart Add Sentences Complexity Hiding Quantity Bullshit Paragraph Syllables

Author:Robert McKee

“Some people perceive Skinner to be complex. I just basically was trying to remember my lines, so I guess that's what they perceive as being complexity.”

People Trying Remember Lines Complexes Perceive Complexity Skinner

Author:Mitch Pileggi

“I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.”

Source: Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects

“Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.”

Grows Greater Simplicity Complexity

Author:Brian Eno

“I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.”

Moving Order Pleasure Practice Theory Feminist Discussion Complexity Rhetoric Pornography Attempting Amplify Feminist Theory

Author:Barbara Degenevieve

“I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.”

Reading Individual Subjects Capable Complexity Reflecting

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?”

Ifs Two Helping Happens Movement Ultimate Universal Complexity Hinder

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.”

Enjoy Intelligent Complexity

Author:Brenda Laurel

“No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.”

Artist Answers Serious Members Scientist University Pursue Alternatives Complexity Faculty Scholar Engineers Physicians Vocation Ambiguity Psychologist Right Answers Faculty Members

Author:Leon Botstein

“There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing when you're younger as an artist you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.”

Thinking Ideas Artist Certain Quality Notes Simplicity Complexity

Author:Patrick Stump

“Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.”

Thinking Life Is Natural Wonder Worry Complexity Logical Irrational Superstitious Illogical Irrational Fear Natural Wonders

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy to the earth's flora and fauna, and I do seriously believe that, given the extraordinary complexity of the natural forces controlling our climate, which have done so for millions of years, the only sensible policy response to the natural process of climate change is prudent and cost-effective adaptation.”

“But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will devastate a world trying to deal with the complexities of economics, stability, and the environment. Quality of life depends on access to energy. Noble intentions about 'C02-free' sources of energy are not sufficient, if their agenda of eliminating coal as a source, and turning their back on nuclear, are allowed to be part of our near-term policies.”

“The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.”

Trying Pursuit Artistic Complexity Ambivalence

Author:Fernando Perez

“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.”

People Stills Faces Speak Goes On Complexity Face To Face Subtext

Author:Cate Blanchett

“There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Universe Bits Mystery Possibility Mass Universal Function Twenties Chains Cells Complexity Minimum Molecules Protein Mystery Of Life Proton

Author:Dean Koontz

“Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a plant that I had passed a thousand time and never given a second thought to. But the dog is curious. And the dog stops and wants to smell this and smell that. And the dog makes you look and focus and take the time.”

Way Want Looks Given Focus Dog Thousand Plant Smell Curious Complexity Small Things Another Way Awakened Second Thoughts

Author:Dean Koontz

“The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.”

Made Social Deals Numbers Fields Essentials Models Structure Property Characteristics Complexity Biology Large Numbers Variables Social Science Physical Science

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.”

Humans Three Brain Four Billions Complexity Pounds Human Brain Neurons

Author:Gerald Fischbach

“For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.”

People Real Self Simple Leader Intellectual Organization Self Confidence Managers Corporations Complexity Insecure Assurance Clutter Self Assurance

Author:Jack Welch

“As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are.”

Writing Trying Past Artist Habit Conscious Architecture Complexity Contradiction Architect Precedent

Author:Robert Venturi

“I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?”

Thinking Humans May Mean Doe Evil Understanding Term Brain Limits Concepts Complexity Good And Evil Neuroscience Human Brain

Author:Francis Collins

“Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?”

Doe Shows Dream Sleep Brain Curiosity Protection Complexity Miraculous

Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

“Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.”

Art Real Existence Fashion Genius Vices Real Life Complexity Entertaining Interiors Filling Surroundings Idleness Seriousness Exterior

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.”

Source: Mostly Harmless

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