Complexity Quotes

"The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed " "Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" "What appears random may follow a pattern we do not yet perceive" "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." "The world is the effect of diversification." "Grown ups are complicated creatures full of quirks and secrets." "Human beings are an extraordinary set of contradictions, at all times both horrible and wonderful." "Astrophysics reveals the beauty and complexity of the cosmos." "It's a sign of a democratic education to seek complexity" "The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind" "The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are principally these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which way it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence. This is called abstraction and thus all its general ideas are made."