#lex

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

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#attitudes #change #changing #complex #cultural

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#contentment #depends #enough #large #large enough

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#beautiful #beautiful thing #complex #hot #i

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#although #audience #complex #going #had

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. ↗

— Scott Turow

#complexity #narrative #present #purpose #us

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

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#first #fixed #flexible #i #i am

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#artist #complex #i #i think #more

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. ↗

— Rita Dove

#complexities #human #human spirit #means #really