Complexity In Simplicity Quotes

#1. You render the small vast and few many,
use integrity to repay hatred,
see the complexity in simplicity,
find the vast in the minute.

Lao-Tzu

#2. Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.

Pearl Zhu

#3. Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

Chai Lu

#4. He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#6. Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. Happiness lies in simplicity
Complexity brings anxiety.

Debasish Mridha

#8. For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

L.R. Knost

#9. Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.

Criss Jami

#11. There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

Patrick Stump

#12. We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

Ben Whishaw

#13. Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.

Price Pritchett

#14. Don't be fooled by the many books on complexity or by the many complex and arcane algorithms you find in this book or elsewhere. Although there are no textbooks on simplicity, simple systems work and complex don't.

Jim Gray

#15. Simple foods connect with your body's needs in complex ways.

Bryant McGill

#16. It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

Criss Jami

#17. Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.

Austin Grossman

#18. 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

#19. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

Criss Jami

#20. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

Helena Rubinstein

#21. I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Jonathan Ive

#22. Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.

Stephen Jay Gould

#23. In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.

John Tukey

#24. If you don't fight for simplicity in software, complexity will win.

Henrik Joreteg

#25. Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

Thomas Sowell

#26. A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Paul Dickson

#27. Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

Noah Lukeman

#28. In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.

Tarun J. Tejpal

#30. Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down to the cafe. But anyone who sits in that cafe and dismisses complexity by reveling in their own simplicity is no less pretentious.

Michael Perry

#31. Life has its beauty in its simplicity.
Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

Debasish Mridha

#32. Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#33. Supernatural simplicity viewed and perceived with complexity, naturally; many suffer from an outside-in misunderstanding.

T.F. Hodge

#34. Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

Herbert A. Simon

#35. The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.

John Szarkowski

#36. In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

Steven Weinberg