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"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
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"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
"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."
"Our heart calls us one way, the mind pulls us the other way, and we do the opposite. We cannot find peace when the mind rages war against the heart, when we fight with our thoughts the pull of our love."
"Many lies lie between one truth."
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
"I don't really have preferred roles except those with some 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?"
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"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."
"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
"By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions."
"By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers."
"A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist."
"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."
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