298 Quotes About Complexity

To manage complexity, one needs to understand it to release oneself from the comfort zone or liberate the comfort zone from prejudice.

Obedient thinking acts obediently. Then, the mind obeys to complexity like falling bricks respect the laws of physics. Not the best way to solve trouble because the mind is in a self-created bubble.

Don’t go on multiplying the mysteries,’ Unwin said. 'They should be kept simple. Bear in mind Poe’s purloined letter, bear in mind Zangwill’s locked room.’'Or made complex,’ replied Dunraven. 'Bear in mind the universe.

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

There is no complexity in what is, but only in the many escapes that we seek.

Reality is the illusion of complexity.

What do you most get out of the artwork that you love the most? And answering my own question, I would hesitate to say that it is communing with someone else’s pain and frailty; it is the empathetic tear of another voice that is like yours but with more experience; it is your own adoration of a complex idea simply and acutely expressed. But chiefly it is that the work is located in the real.

We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any given situation, unless you can parse the situation, deconstruct it. People just don't have the insight to be able to do that very effectively.

Metaphysics is not the result of understanding the limitations of physics.It’s rather the result of the limitation in understanding physics.