(589 quotes found)
“The complex develops out of the simple.”
Colin Wilson
“I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.”
Barbara Streisand
“The Complexity of the Human Life becomes double each year”
Ramesh Kumar Jha
“The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.”
Alice Munro
“A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
Oscar Wilde
“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of thegreatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and mostobvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsityof conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.”
Herbert Simon
“A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.”
William Gibson
“The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in /telephonic, technological and relational /to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.”
Jean Baudrillard
