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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
by Alice Munro (Writer, Canadian , born in 1931) keywords: complexity, easy, endless, just, mean, nothing, seems, simple, things , within The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.
by Richard Neal (Politician, American , born in 1949) keywords: call, code, complexity, complicated, convoluted, denounce, effect, ever, into, monstrosity, more, now, ones, put, republican, side, tax, than, today, together , very Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
by Michael Palin (Comedian, British , born in 1943) keywords: around, believe, complexity, corner, diversity, future, hope, only, us, violence, want , world Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
by Alan Perlis (Scientist, American , born in 1922) keywords: avoid, complexity, fools, geniuses, ignore, pragmatists, remove, some , suffer From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
by Abdus Salam (Scientist, Pakistani , born in 1936) keywords: complexity, comprehend, concepts, desired, elementary, few, immemorial, man, nature, possible, terms , time We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.
by Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (Celebrity, American , born in 1957) keywords: afraid, again, al, believes, complexity, gore, knows, made, need, new, open, president, society, tolerant , world Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
by Dan Simmons (Author, American , born in 1948) keywords: aspire, been, complexity, definition, down, film, four, history, literary, movie, movies, only, sf , three Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
by Herbert Simon (Scientist, American , born in 1916) keywords: apparent, behaving, behavior, beings, complexity, environment, find, human, largely, our, ourselves, over, quite, reflection, simple, systems, time, viewed , which What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
by Bryan Singer (Director, American , born in 1965) keywords: acknowledgement, any, better, call, complexity, deserve, deserves, evil, help, just, kind, means, necessarily, prevent, respect, understand , understanding The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
by Thomas Sowell (Economist, American , born in 1930) topics: Technology keywords: complexity, does, growing, imply, intellectual, lives, march, means, most, often, opposite, science , technology We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today.
by John W. Thompson (Businessman, American , born in 1949) keywords: complexity, deal, more, need, out, paradigm, reactive, shift, solutions, technologies, threats, today , variety The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
by Edward Thorndike (Psychologist, American , born in 1874) keywords: associations, complexity, consists, delicacy, evolution, formation, increase, intellectual, number, permanence, race, speed , such This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
by Edward Thorndike (Psychologist, American , born in 1874) keywords: acme, animal, associations, case, complexity, delicacy, formation, growth, man, number, permanence, possible, reaches , speed The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
by Kenneth Tynan (Critic, English , born in 1927) keywords: always, became, complexity, critic, effort, had, play, sheer, understand , writing And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
by Will Wright (Scientist, American , born in 1960) keywords: always, been, come, complexity, fascinated, idea, out, simplicity , such