Quotes About Complexity

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

We have to learn to make our own way through a complex world without the benefit of an accepted trustworthy route map.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.