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"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."

"The nature of reality is such that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible, they are all one time events. This is a dynamic of novelty and so anything stable is forced to fluctuate including meaning. When we measure a thing we may not see the dynamics as a consequence of resolution. This is because the holographic information field has a nested hierarchy of scale."

"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."

"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."

"The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations."

"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."

"As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive."

"People are too complicated to have simple labels."

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."

"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
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"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."

"All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days."

"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."

"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."

"The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it."
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