#complicate

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#give #i #illusion #just #now

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive. ↗

— Larry Wall

#designed #expressive #language #learned #like

I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play. ↗

— Paula Zahn

#come #complicates #i #into #job

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#complicated #damaged #drawn #i

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209) ↗

— Alain de Botton

#complexity #complicated #construction #design #elegance

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#complicated #difficult #most #part #process

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#complicated #context #fact #issue #opinions

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#engineering #ethics #genetic #genetic engineering #i

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#brain #complicated #heart #kindness #need

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#earth #feel #god #himself #his