Top Complexity Quotes
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
Atom Egoyan
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.
Jan de Bont
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
Abdus Salam
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Dan Simmons
Richard Neal 
Stephen Jay Gould 
Atom Egoyan 
Murray Gell-Mann 
Richard Roxburgh 
Dan Simmons 
Bram Cohen 
Bryan Singer 
Yukihiro Matsumoto 
Mitchell Baker 
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
C. Northcote Parkinson 
63% of people like this quote
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
Atom Egoyan
60% of people like this quote
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.
Jan de Bont
59% of people like this quote
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
Abdus Salam
57% of people like this quote
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Dan Simmons
57% of people like this quote
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.
John W. Thompson
56% of people like this quote
The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.
Richard Neal
56% of people like this quote
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
David Deutsch
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Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.
Lawrence Kutner
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The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
Mitchell Baker
56% of people like this quote
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Thomas SowellDouglas HortonKen BurnsKevin KellyAtom EgoyanEdward de BonoSeth LloydAlan PerlisGyorgy LigetiRichard DawkinsMurray Gell-MannEdward ThorndikeMohsen MakhmalbafRichard NealHerbert Simon
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