Complexity Quotes

True simplicity is tough; for the creator to provide simplicity, he/she has to bear the burden of complexity.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.

Building software is [...] how much scaffolding can you erect before the whole thing collapses under its own weight. [...] It's about managing complexity.

Things have various qualities and the soul various tendencies, for nothing presented to the soul is simple, and the sould never applies itself simply to any subject. That is why the same thing makes us laugh and cry.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing... The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about -- clouds -- daffodils -- waterfalls... these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks...It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

There is almost certainly an evolutionary drive toward increasing complexity in the face of entropy. That’s practically a definition of life. Technology is so powerful and attractive to us because it holds the promise of greater complexity and greater connectedness. Atoms to molecules to cells to organelles to organisms. What’s next? No one knows for sure, but it sure ain’t Facebook.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews
Not to be born is the best for man.

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.