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Complexity Quotes
"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."
"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."
"As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive."
"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
"The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity."
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
"I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity."
"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
"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."
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."
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