#complexity

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity. ↗

— Edward Norton

#duality #just #story

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. ↗

— Gary Ross

#change #complexity #contradiction #each #else

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#complexity #fools #geniuses #ignore #pragmatists

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#does #follows #precede #simplicity

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not. ↗

— Lawrence Kutner

#chopsticks #comes #complexity #despite #even

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

#again #al #al gore #believes #complexity

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

#beings #complex #complexity #human #human beings

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #being #complex #complexity #could

One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#humanity #humanity-complexity #lying #change

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#man #men