“The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficulties, harmonized many discords, and yea, more! It shewed the substance of Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible.” WorldIdeasSelfLightUniversePleasurePathCapableDiscoveryAll ThingsOrganizationDifficultyChaosSimplicityDeeperPhysicsSelf RealizationRealizationMannersSubstanceComplexityInterpretationChemistryPeculiarAtomsMomentaryDiscordOld Ideas Author:Aleister Crowley
“If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will be secured only when parents are able to make a living for their families with so little difficulty that they may give their best thought and energy to the child's development and the problem of helping it adjust itself to the complexities of the modern environment.” IfsGivingMayChildrenLittlesHelpingProblemAbleEnergyParentResponsibilityPovertyEnvironmentRightsModernDevelopmentDifficultyComplexityUpbringingSecured Author:Suzanne La Follette
“Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That's not a job anymore. That's a button. There's a button that says "publish," and when you press it, it's done.” MeanDoneJobsDifficultyPressesIncrediblesEvolveComplexityGoing AwayExpensesPublishingButtonsPublishCadre Author:Clay Shirky
“A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.” PeopleWayKindFactsFormCertainOrderDealsDifficultyRelationComplexityYieldAllowingSermonsSonnetReversalExcursions Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.” TryingArtistSocialDealsDegreesDifficultyComplexityVisualsPresentationSocial Life Author:Barbara Kruger
“Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.” HumansLiteraturePossibilityActivityAccountsDifficultyComplexityPreciseHuman Activity Author:Lionel Trilling
“I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.” ThinkingMenRealFactsProblemDifficultSituationClearImpossibleStreetsHe ManMassDifficultyPressesDistanceRadioEnormousComplexitySignificanceProblem Solving Author:George C. Marshall
“Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.” LifeLyingDifficultFateDesignInspireFitDifficultySimplicityPatternsLife ChangingComplexityGrandeurFate Love Book:Prose and poetry Source: Prose and poetry
“The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.” WayImportantProblemValuesDesignDifficultySimplicityComplexitySoftwareAmbitiousEleganceSoftware DesignSimplicity And Elegance Author:Fernando J. Corbato