298 Quotes About Complexity

  • Author Aaron Koblin
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    As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

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  • Author Daniel Kahneman
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    People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

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  • Author Phil Klay
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    Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

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  • Author Sheldon Kurtz
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    The size of the committee, from our point of view, should be dictated by the complexity of the institution.

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  • Author Walter Kirn
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    On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

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  • Author Ang Lee
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    Things are being simplified a lot for us lately. I think people are hungry for something that shows more respect for the complexity of life, the depth, the grey areas.

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  • Author Gilbert Newton Lewis
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    To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties.

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