Quotes About Complexity

If believing were simple, then this world wouldn't be in the mess that it is today.

...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.

I am a little bit of everything that I´ve ever read or said.

In this modern world it is easy to be complex but difficult to be simple. At least try to keep your mind simple.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Primitive does not mean stupid.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.