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"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."
"The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized 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?"
"Many books describe different problem solving techniques, but solving complicated problems in reality is not so easy."
Explore more quotes by Alan Perlis
"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
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