Quotes of Complication - somelinesforyou

“ I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. ”

- Don Delillo

“ In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. - Josh Billings. ”

- Josh Billings

“ All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words. ”

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

“ The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. ”

- Doug Horton

“ The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. ”

- Eugene Wigner

“ The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. ”

- Alice Munro

“ Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept ; seek it everywhere. ”

- Alan Perlis

“ There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ It's not as though I have a message... I haven't solved any problem. It's a discussion, it's a meditation on the complexity of it. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ The notion of irreducible complexity is nonsense,... Finding Darwin's God. ”

- Kenneth Miller

“ A starlit or a moonlit dome disdainsAll that man is,All mere complexities,The fury and the mire of human veins. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. ”

- Robert Lynd

“ Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties. ”

- Charles H. Spurgeon

“ I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity. ”

- Richard Roxburgh

“ My difficulties belong to me. ”

- Alfred Adler

“ The complexities of projects within companies continues to grow. ”

- Robert Chapman

“ Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ”

- Christopher Alexander

“ Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ I think there's a complexity to it, but I think audiences are completely up for that. ”

- Daniel Craig

“ Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. ”

- Buck Henry

“ I think if this were not an odd-numbered year, we would have great difficulties. ”

- John McCain

“ Several delegations, including ours, had difficulties with it. ”

- Christopher Hill

“ I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper. ”

- Brian Eno

“ Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ”

- William Ellery Channing
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