#complexity

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity. ↗

— Will Wright

#been #come #complexity #fascinated #i

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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I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#boy #complexity #diversity #evolution #i

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#because #change #complexity #crummy #expensive

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #because #complex #complexity #culture

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#humanity-complexity #humor #mind #funny

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on. ↗

— Marsha Mason

#emotional #emotional life #life #live #play

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#complexity #explode #features #into

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. ↗

— Alice Munro

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