Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old complexity quotes, complexity sayings, and complexity proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.Brian Kernighan
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Complexity is the enemy of execution.Tony Robbins
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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.Alice Munro
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The easiest way to cope with complexity is not having it.Carlos Gershenson
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat men as arm them with fancy.R. Scott Bakker
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Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.Diane Ackerman
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There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.Peter Drucker
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The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.Jamie Bell
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In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful.William Krystol
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The complexity of a system is no guarantee of its accuracy.John Jordan
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Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.John Kenneth Galbraith
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Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.Winston Churchill
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Complexity – limits competition.Seth Klarman
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.Edward de Bono
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.Edward de Bono
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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.Edwin Way Teale
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Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.Jeff Hawkins
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Complexity is the enemy of clarity.Andy Stanley
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Complexity creates a maze between you and success. Simplicity ensures a clear line of sight.Lee J. Colan
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Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.Lancelot Law Whyte
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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.Kevin Kelly
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Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.Brian Eno
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Without complexity, there's no intensity.Alexandra Adornetto
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.Edward de Bono
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Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.Chris Brogan
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The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.Mignon G. Eberhart
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Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.Lawrence Bossidy
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Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure.Dean Cavanagh
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The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.Susan Choi
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Out of complexity, find simplicity.Albert Einstein
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The complexity of the human life becomes double each year. Ramesh Kumar Jha
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Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.Roger Kimball
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Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface.Alexander Stepanov
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You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.Larry Tesler
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The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity.David Allen
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Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.Donald A. Norman
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Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.Richard Branson
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In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.Steven Weinberg
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The complex develops out of the simple. Colin Wilson
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Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.John Green
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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.Christopher Alexander
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Human complexity can be conquered with calmness.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Complexity is the main enemy of security. Niels Ferguson
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Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.Paul Desmond
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.E. O. Wilson