Quotes About Complexity

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they're hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.