Quotes About Complexity

Wow, " she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise.""You are not easy to get along with, " Skulduggery said.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

Loving is a laborious and complex business.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven't said before. You are nothing I haven't felt before.

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.