Complexity Quotes - page 15

Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding. (Sean M. Carroll)
A psychological consequence of this is the following: when we analyze a mechanism we tend to over estimate its complexity. View quote
Valentino Braitenberg
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. View quote
Patrick Stump
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. View quote
Bram Cohen
Let me tell you one thing. There is great complexity in this creation. The Master does one thing through one man and another thing through another person. Oh, it is so inscrutable! View quote
Sarada Devi
My family history is made of migration; it's something that's part of my own complexity. View quote
Mati Diop
When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer. View quote
Nolan Bushnell
... God must also be an incredible physicist ... there is this phenomenal fine-tuning of the universe that makes complexity and, therefore, life possible. View quote
Francis Collins
Facing the immense complexity of modern social and industrial conditions, there is need to use freely and unhesitatingly the collective power of all of us; and yet no exercise of collective power will ever avail if the average individual does not keep his or her sense of personal duty, initiative, and responsibility. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We find that the manager, particularly at senior levels, is overburdened with work. With the increasing complexity of modern organizations and their problems, he is destined to become more so. He is driven to brevity, fragmentation, and superficiality in his tasks, yet he cannot easily delegate them because of the nature of his information. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
We continually speak of world views in the plural because a unique and monolithic world view - considering the immense complexity of reality - will remain an unattainable ideal. (Diederik Aerts)
In her beauty and coarseness, in her complexity and tragedy Afghanistan possesses a mystical quality, a magnetism. Few places have such accumulated layers of culture, religion, history, and lore that instill both fear and awe. Yet those who seek to budge her trajectory are reminded that dreams often end up buried in the barren slopes of the Hindu Kush or in muddy fields alongside the Helmand River. View quote
Stanley A. McChrystal
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream? View quote
Dick Cavett
Religion leaves no room for human complexity. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
Two things alone remained to him in which he now put any trust: dogs and nature; an elk-hound and a rose bush. The world, in all its variety, life in all its complexity, had shrunk to that. Dogs and a bush were the whole of it. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort. View quote
Edward de Bono
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus. View quote
Edward de Bono
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened ' it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned. View quote
Douglas Adams
T'riss sat down opposite the Warden, her expression thoughtful. 'Is civilisation nothing but an illusion, then?' 'Crowd control.' 'Excuse me?' 'That's all civilisation is, T'riss. A means by which we manage the proliferation of our kind. It increases in complexity the more of us there are. Laws keeps us muzzled and punishment delivers the necessary message when those laws are broken. Civilizations in decline are notable when certain of their members escape justice, and do so with impunity. View quote
Steven Erikson
In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning. (Peter Senge)
The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. View quote
Mitchell Baker
There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true. View quote
Matt Taibbi
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. View quote
Christopher Alexander
My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school. View quote
Dennis Ritchie