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"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
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"My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
"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."
"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
"People are too complicated to have simple labels."
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
"There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?"
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
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"The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."
"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."
"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body."
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