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"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
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"Many lies lie between one truth."
"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."
"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."
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"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."
"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."
"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
"Dealing with any man means dealing with multiple personalities."
"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."
"She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it."
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"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."
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