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"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
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"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."
"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."
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"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."
"Many books describe different problem solving techniques, but solving complicated problems in reality is not so easy."
"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."
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"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
"There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two."
"The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity."
"Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases."
"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
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