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#complexity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #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

Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out how to build arches... and virtually all our buildings today use post-and-lintel construction, precisely what the arch was devised to replace. We have better materials and more money, and given that, arches are usually not worth the extra complexity. ↗


— Henry Spencer


#brute-force #complexity #elegance #engineering #architecture

The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life. ↗


— Alain de Botton


#intuition #lessons #life #business

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ↗


— Christopher Alexander


#design #environmental #great #great problems #problems

The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. ↗


— Mitchell Baker


#code #complexity #lines #mozilla #project

She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even marvelous, beautiful parts, just locked up away at the bottom of their hearts. They do this because they are afraid of the world and of being stared at, or relied upon to do feats of bravery or boldness. And all of those brave and wild and cunning and marvelous and beautiful parts they hid away and left in the dark to grow strange mushrooms—and yes, sometimes those wicked and unkind parts, too—end up in their shadow. ↗


— Catherynne M. Valente


#layers #masks #beauty

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. ↗


— C. Northcote Parkinson


#decay #expansion #means

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. ↗


— Gael Garcia Bernal


#becoming #complexity #constructed #day-to-day #democracy

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong? ↗


— Kirk Douglas


#composed #conversely #dark #find #guy

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters. ↗


— Michael Fassbender


#asking #audience #being #characters #coming






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