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"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
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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."
"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."
"As the complexity in any system increases, the ability to form a correct understanding decreases exponentially."
"Robust systems have a dynamic hierarchy of nested behaviors. How many moves ahead are you able to think when playing chess? How much effort are you willing to commit to understanding the deeply nuanced structure? Probably, success is not what you think it is. Adventures require novelty. Value has interesting surprises."
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"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."
"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."
"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."
"Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them."
"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
"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."
"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."
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