“I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.” ShouldBelieveHumansDoeHas BeensWholeUseLanguageI BelieveCausesResultsBrainSolutionsToolsShould HaveDetailsComplexityInteractionUnpredictableIrrelevantShould Have BeenProgrammersPreventingHuman BrainInstillOverload Author:Erik Naggum
“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.” IfsShouldTryingMayImportantRunningFoundDifficultAnswersResultsEffortWonderSeriousPhysicsComplexityFascinatingPhysicistAmbiguityPerplexityLayman Author:Edward Condon
“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.” ThinkingProcessUnderstandingResultsPrinciplesProduceCreaturesCapableAccidentsExpectedComplexityGloriousConstructionUnpredictable Book:Full House Source: Full House
“When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to-he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn't designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health.” NeedsLittlesHas BeensDifferentProblemAnimalResultsPracticeWillingDiseaseTreatedBehaveComplexityFarmsChemicalsFarmersEfficiencyFeedingMachineryCrowdedFertilizerSanitationLivestockSymbiosisDifferent AnimalsMonoculture Author:Michael Pollan
“The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.” MatterLanguageSimpleResultsComplexesEaseComplexityTransparent Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.” KindNaturalResultsTestsComplexitySoftwareBugs Author:Will Wright