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Simple Rules, Complex Outcomes.
Complexity arises from the intricate interplay of interconnected elements, leading to emergent behaviors and unpredictable outcomes that defy simple reduction. It's meaningful to human life because understanding complexity allows us to navigate and adapt to the world's inherent uncertainties, fostering innovation, resilience, and a deeper appreciation for the intricate systems we are a part of.
# Complexity & Themes
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Context: • Daniel Radcliffe, in Atheism For Dummies, p. 358
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“Religion leaves no room for human complexity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Theodore Sturgeon, "Shore Leave", Star Trek: The Original Series, broadcast December 29, 1966.
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“Kirk: The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Douglas Horton, in Quotes about Simplicity, p. 7
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“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Poul Anderson, "Call Me Joe" (April, 1957) Astounding Science Fiction as spoken by the character, Jan Cornelius.
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“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it in the right way, did not become more complicated.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alice Munro, in Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign - Part II: Libra-Pisces, Part 2, p. 193
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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.”
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Context: • Daniel Radcliffe, in Atheism For Dummies, p. 358
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“Religion leaves no room for human complexity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Theodore Sturgeon, "Shore Leave", Star Trek: The Original Series, broadcast December 29, 1966.
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“Kirk: The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Douglas Horton, in Quotes about Simplicity, p. 7
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“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Poul Anderson, "Call Me Joe" (April, 1957) Astounding Science Fiction as spoken by the character, Jan Cornelius.
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“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it in the right way, did not become more complicated.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Alice Munro, in Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign - Part II: Libra-Pisces, Part 2, p. 193
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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.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas Sowell, in Knowledge and Decisions, p. 10
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“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
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Context: • Oliver Wendell Holmes, in The Executive's Compass: Business and the Good Society, p. 5
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“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”
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Context: • Erik Christopher Zeeman, in From Human to Robot and Back Again: The Process of Rehearsing and Performing ..., p. 1
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“Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.”
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Context: • Roger Ebert, in Snow White and the Huntsman
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“But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is a considerable experience.”
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Context: • Alan Perlis, in From Complexity to Simplicity: Unleash Your Organisation's Potential
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“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”
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Context: • Michael Palin, in On Diversity and Complexity
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“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.”
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Context: • Ralph Marston, in Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War ..., p. 3
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“It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.”
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Context: • David Klion, in Telly Davidson, "What The West Wing Cult Revival Says About 2018 Politics". The American Conservative magazine, August 23, 2018.
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“It’s incredible how many years I wasted associating complexity and ambiguity with intelligence. Turns out the right answer is usually pretty simple, and complexity and ambiguity are how terrible people live with themselves.”
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Context: • Stephen Jay Gould, in Evolution and the Common Law, p. 41
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“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.”
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Context: • Jaron Lanier, in Worddetail
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“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”
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Context: • L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action by L.K. Samuels, Cobden Press, (2013) p. 28.
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“Complexity has the propensity to overload systems, making the relevance of a particular piece of information not statistically significant. And when an array of mind-numbing factors is added into the equation, theory and models rarely conform to reality.”
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Context: • L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 227.
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“The inherent nature of complexity is to doubt certainty and any pretense to finite and flawless data. Put another way, under uncertainty principles, any attempt by political systems to ‘impose order’ has an equal chance to instead ‘impose disorder.’”
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Context: • William Gibson, in Twitter tweet (31 May 2009)
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“The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive.”
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Context: • Ward Cunningham, in "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work : A Conversation with Ward Cunningham" Part V (19 January 2004)
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“I actually enjoy complexity that's empowering. If it challenges me, the complexity is very pleasant. But sometimes I must deal with complexity that's disempowering. The effort I invest to understand that complexity is tedious work. It doesn't add anything to my abilities.”
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Context: • Edward Thorndike, in Popular Science Nov 1901, p. 65
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“The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.”
— Unknown
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