Complexity Quotes

"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."

"In general, I like contradictions and complex situations."

"In complex systems, one can think about linear interactions and complex or nonlinear interactions."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had."

Eric Schmidt

"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."

John von Neumann

"Politics is more difficult than physics."

Albert Einstein

“Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.”

"I am large, I contain multitudes."

"History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors."

T. S. Eliot

“Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.”

Brian Kernighan

“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

Alan Perlis