Quotes About Complexity

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

Simple things don't interest me.

Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

I don't know much of direction even after acting in so many movies. In fact, I still don't understand some simple things.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I like to pay attention to that detail.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.

I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

In all aspects of our society we overcomplicate things under the guise of making things easier and simpler, when in fact we are doing the opposite.

Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated.

Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

The simplest science book is over my head.

A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.