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"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."

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

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

"I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity."

"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."

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

"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."

"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."

"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
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"Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect."

"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."

"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."

"I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind."
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