Quotes About Complexity

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

When people ask me where I am from, with artificial simplicity, they don't understand how convoluted an answer it may sound.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt it absolutely necessary to do more simplification than I've ever done before.

One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.

Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.

Human adaptability simply doesn't get accurately captured in econometric models.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

I am many things. I don't fit in any box. I'm Israeli, I'm Palestinian, I'm Arab, I'm Muslim, I'm a woman, a mother, and I am enjoying my life as an Israeli but cannot turn my back on my heritage. Is there a point when we will be able to move on?

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?