#complexity

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

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #because #changes #code #complexity

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes

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

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

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

#being #believes #complexity #deal #father

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

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#complexity #explode #features #into