Complexity

expansion complexity decay

"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."

—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993)

complexity simple truth

"Complexity is a device for evading simple truths"

― John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)

do well enjoyable complexity

"If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity."

― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

complexity enemy security

“Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and our systems are getting more complex all the time.”

— Bruce Schneier

machine decrease complexity IT increase information

"Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information."

— Shoshana Zuboff

complexity astray simplicity follow

"Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow."

— Roger Kimball

simplicity complexity trust

“...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”

― Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

complexity fool pragmatic genius avoid

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

—Alan Perlis (1922-1990)

complexity process cell simple model linear equation

"Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases."

― Ludwig Von Bertalanffy (1901-1972)

application complexity user developer law

"Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer)."

— Larry Tesler (1945-2020)

complexity task shift burden

"You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around."

— Larry Tesler

probem software complexity divide conquer

"The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer"

― Bjarne Stroustrup

genius lead deconstruct complexity exploit simplicity

“Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.”

— Andy Benoit

society complexity cheating easy police understand

"As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand."

— Vitalik Buterin

life is simple - make it complicated coplexity

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

― Confucius (551BC-479BC)

problem complicate rational logic solution

"Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions.

They admit of insights, not answers."

— Jerome Wiesner (1915-1994)

simple uncomplicated happy life

"Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become."

— Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952)

politics physics complicated

"Politics is far more complicated than physics."

— Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

complicated achievement unconscious thought

"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."

— Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

religion temple philosophy brain heart kindness

"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

question complicated answer simple

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

— Dr. Seuss (1904-1991)

style simple complicated

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."

— Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

complicated life poetry boring

"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."

— Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

man complicated thought

"A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts."

— Paul Ambroise Valery (1871-1945)

journey history complicated delusion false memory naming event

"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

— Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)