160 Complexity Quotes for You to Enjoy

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance. Annie Dillard

Beauty Pleasing Exuberance Complexity Detail Variety Generosity Infinite Forms Notion Multiplicity

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune. Antonia Bird

World Complexity Immune Struck No-One Always Been Cure Where

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle. Atul Gawande

Become Think Medicine Extreme Complexity More Individual Handle Than Teams

Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong. Atul Gawande

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We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else. Barbara Demick

Life Real Life Beneath Else Complexity Parades See Life Goes On Faces Gymnastics Emotion Mass Smiles Real Koreans Doing North Fixed Same Goes Human Anywhere Anywhere Else

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity. Barry Diller

Pure Own Else Unless Complexity Clarity Superficiality Never Know Makes Answers Line Shining Essentially Anybody Anybody Else Story Product Internal

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package. Billy Collins

Good Song Simple Example Striking Complexity Stead Emily Emily Dickinson Remained Never Developed Like She Bows Within Persona Same Stood Rhymes Package Little Loyal Her

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

Me Age School Father Own Programming Else Rudimentary Back Everything Everything Else Though Complexity Classes My Own More Computational Studying Learned Were Than Any Taught Anything Anything Else Function Including Basic Hardly

With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative. Brin-Jonathan Butler

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Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety. Butch Trucks

You Word Country Complexity Kind Like Subtlety Cool Thing

The tax code's complexity adds enormous costs to families and businesses across the country and takes nothing short of an army of federal bureaucrats to enforce. Charles Boustany

Army Country Nothing Enormous Adds Complexity Costs Federal Takes Families Bureaucrats Short Tax Enforce Across Businesses Code

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. Charles Jencks

You Science Architecture Tree Slight Complexity Exactly Similar Variation Previous Computer Cheaply Leaf New Look How Methods Repetition Branch Quickly Efficiently Get Any Just Produced Production Showing Using

People underestimate the complexity of comic books. Cheo Hodari Coker

People Books Complexity Underestimate Comic Comic Books

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative. Christine and the Queens

Love Me Lyrics Complexity Intricate Dive Give Give Me Narrative Human

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. Christopher Alexander

Environmental Great Problems Design Complexity

For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable. Claire Messud

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost. Daniel H. Wilson

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People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings. Daniel Kahneman

Life You People My Life Complex Complexity Know Very Get Human Human Beings Psychologist Fascinated Beings Lived Career

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states. Daniel Levitin

Music Better Language States Complexity Able Emotional Than Represent Human

Religion leaves no room for human complexity. Daniel Radcliffe

Religion Complexity Leaves Human Room

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning. David Christian

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I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.' David Lagercrantz

Life Good You Quality Matter Father Complexity Eye See Write Also Read Always Sell Heaven Want Certainly Capture

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity. David Whyte

Change Reality Complexity Attempting Trying Stop Eliminate

I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else. DeRay Mckesson

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