Top 25 Complexity Quotes of 97

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

Preparation, Complexity

De Rerum Natura bk. 1, l. 155

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.

Want, Matter, Complexity

"Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent". Book by Gyan Nagpal, p. 3, December 3, 2012.

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

Cynthia Hand

Heart, Complexity, Human Heart

Cynthia Hand (2012). “Hallowed”, p.20, Egmont UK

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

Edward T. Hall

Life, Individual, Complexity

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Simple, Complexity, Formulas

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

Thomas Eisner

Greatest Treasure, Cost, Complexity

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Simple, Complexity, Sophistication

"The Age of Uncertainty". Documentary, 1977.

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

Dorothy Hodgkin

Molecules, Geometry, Complexity

Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

Simplicity is complexity resolved

Constantin Brancusi

Simplicity, Complexity

Don't let complexity stop you.

Bill Gates

Complexity

Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

John Maeda

Simplicity, Needs, Complexity

John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.45, MIT Press

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

Spalding Gray

Chaos, Complexity

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Abdus Salam

Men, Term, Complexity

Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.378, World Scientific

Complexity is the enemy of execution!

Tony Robbins

Enemy, Execution, Complexity

Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

Larry Tesler

Simplicity, Complexity, Deals

We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.

Herbert Benson

Events, Way, Complexity

Herbert Benson (1976). “The Relaxation Response”, G K Hall & Company

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

David Gelernter

Design, Defense, Complexity

David Hillel Gelernter (1998). “Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology”, Basic Books (AZ)

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

Steven Weinberg

Interesting, Simplicity, Complexity

Steven Weinberg (2012). “Lake Views”, p.112, Harvard University Press

Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.

Michael Behe

Evolution, Problem, Complexity

Source: www.theguardian.com

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Max Baucus

Kind, Taxes, Complexity

My goal is to simplify complexity.

Jack Dorsey

Goal, Simplify, Complexity

Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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

Wolfgang Tillmans

Reading, Individual, Complexity

Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity.

Ken Wilber

Consciousness, Complexity

Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard, Marco Morelli (2008). “Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening”, p.78, Shambhala Publications