Top 100 Complex Simple Quotes
#2. People aren't very good listeners, by nature ... Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.
Mike Tomlin
#3. Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.
Dan Millman
#5. I guess nobody assumes anybody is a libertarian. It's a more complex political discussion than most people are used to, to explain why you think the way you do about public education or drug laws, and why it's not as simple as being for or against something.
Dave Barry
#6. I often ask the question: Is it impossible to have a simple life?
The world is not simple, Claire said.
The world is not simple. Joe repeated the phrase like the line of a great poem.
Elizabeth Brundage
#7. Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.
B. J. Fogg
#8. The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.
Ayn Rand
#9. If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
Anthony Horowitz
#10. The idea part is simple but the visual perception is complex.
Sol LeWitt
#11. The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
Anton Chekhov
#12. A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.
James Scott Bell
#13. Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
Zoltan Kodaly
#14. There's no need to use a big, complex idea when a small simple one will do.
Carlos Bueno
#15. In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.
Dan Ariely
#16. The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
John Desmond Bernal
#17. Your ability to solve complex problems may make you overthink simple problems, going for the convoluted answer and overlooking the simple, more obvious solution.
Anonymous
#18. Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.
Karl Popper
#20. The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.
Giorgio Armani
#22. What a wonderfully complex thing! this simple seeming unity - the self!
H.G.Wells
#23. I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep.
Karen Cushman
#24. What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
Charles Baudelaire
#25. a detailed low-level one for complex situations and a simple high-level one for routine use. The second can usually be built easily using the tools provided by the first. In
Marijn Haverbeke
#26. The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
#27. I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.
Nick Cave
#28. In recent years, more and more businesses are shifting from the pipeline structure to the platform structure. In this shift, the simple pipeline arrangement is transformed into a complex relationship in which producers, consumers, and the platform itself enter into a variable set of relationships.
Geoffrey G. Parker
#29. A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
Dan Colen
#30. Every relationship has fissures and cracks. That doesn't mean it's meaningless or bad or even wrong. We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray. Yet we somehow expect our relationships to never be anything but simple and pure.
Harlan Coben
#31. Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
Bernard Crick
#32. Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.
Jane Hirshfield
#33. English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.
Bill Bryson
#34. The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole
Eric S. Raymond
#36. It's a simple complex system. That's the technical name for it. Because it's simple, it's prone to cascades, and because it's complex, you can't predict what's going to fail. Or how. It's computationally impossible.
James S.A. Corey
#37. Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it a long time ago - complex problems invariably require complex and difficult solutions.
Steve Herbert
#38. He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always a solution, a definite answer.
Lisa Kleypas
#39. The more we understand the simplicity of life, the less complex we shall live.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.
Voltaire
#41. These Days, Keeping Anything "Simple" Is The Most "Complex" Task To Do ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#42. We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.
Bryan Kest
#43. Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.
Neil Gershenfeld
#44. for every complex question, there is an answer that is simple, elegant and wrong.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#45. I know that scenario... that "You are going to die"... bullshit and bullshit I was next to you what did I fucking get?
- Simple answers of so complex questions... So simple questions and so complex answers... I never mean that and I never wanted that to happen.
Deyth Banger
#46. A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.
S. N. Behrman
#47. If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.
Jennifer Pahlka
#48. Complex ideas must be made simple, or they'll remain ideas and never be put into action.
Nathaniel Fick
#49. The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
Kevin Kelly
#50. But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.
Michael Behe
#51. The world is simple in a complex way. -Zack Merrick
Zack Merrick
#52. The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
W. H. Auden
#53. What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.
Edward Tufte
#54. The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.
Vironika Tugaleva
#55. Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.
Thomas Huxley
#56. Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.
Adam P. Knave
#58. Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.
Rudy Rucker
#59. Beware of simple solutions, they often lead to complex problems.
Bobby Hoffman
#60. Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the essence of living a meaningful life remains simple- following your heart and pursuing your life purpose.
Roopleen
#61. I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done.
Michel Hazanavicius
#62. Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.
Alfred Marshall
#63. The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.
Thomas Merton
#64. In this complex modern world, it is impossible to be simple.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
Oscar Wilde
#66. Life is simple. You're the one making things complex.
Sue Grafton
#67. I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
Patrick Fischler
#68. The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system . We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.
Donella Meadows
#69. The politics of wizardry were either very simple, and resolved by someone ceasing to breathe, or as complex as one ball of yarn in a room with three bright-eyed little kittens.
Terry Pratchett
#71. I don't think simple is an insult. Something that's really simple and great is probably harder to do than something more complex.
Ira Kaplan
#72. Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
#73. Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.
Anton Chekhov
#74. Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or mathematics envy.
Marvin Minsky
#75. I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.
Robert Kiyosaki
#76. Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.
Douglas Rushkoff
#78. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Criss Jami
#80. Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
Al McGuire
#81. One of the main points of the philosophy behind parkour is being able to help people ... To teach them they way themselves, to gain confidence in themselves, building up from simple moves to more complex things, to teach them that they are worthwhile people.
Chris Hayes
#82. Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.
Michael Foot
#83. Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
Oscar Wilde
#84. I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as writers of "simple" or "complex" music - has become increasingly problematic and is almost never productive.
Michael Hersch
#85. All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.
John Yorke
#86. Nutritionists all over the world are of the opinion that we should combine protein with complex carbohydrates. A simple dosai made with parboiled rice, husked black gram and fenugreek seeds fulfils this need.
Chandra Padmanabhan
#87. A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.
Peter Farb
#88. Bear was as beautiful as he was hard. He was as complex as he was simple. He was both the storm and the calm. The fear and the solace. The rage and the peace.
My life and my love.
T.M. Frazier
#89. Turning complex, diverse places into shallow, simple ones creates a more culturally vulnerable population, an unrooted mass whose only linking thread lies in the ideology that is fed to them from above.
Alastair Bonnett
#90. Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make
Louise Penny
#91. 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
#92. GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.
Douglas Gwyn
#93. I always liked to be fairly simple because you could get more players ready to play quickly. If you lose players to free agency, injuries, etc., it is easier to get young players ready to play in a less complex system.
Tony Dungy
#94. Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.
Pete Seeger
#95. Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.
Homaro Cantu
#96. In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
Leslie Cockburn
#97. When we are able to do something so easily, we regard such thing as simplicity; but simplicity is complexity. Withing the things which are simple lay the things which are complex and within the things which are complex, lay the things which are simple
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#98. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Richard Dawkins
#99. Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
Phil Klay
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