Complexity Theory Quotes

#1. A few key terms that frame the dynamics of complexity theory will be a starting point for further study and further reflection on how complexity theory can increase our awareness of organizational dynamics and the nested systems of change that constitute life and change.

Milton Friesen

#2. Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

Edward Felten

#3. Government succeeds by failing.

L.K. Samuels

#4. Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus

#5. I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

John Madden

#6. All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

Lance Morcan

#7. I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Paul Gibbons

#9. I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

Kerry Greenwood

#10. When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

Gavin DeGraw

#11. When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.

Summer Glau

#12. The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Richard Dawkins

#13. You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Earl Wilson

#14. My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.

Dennis Ritchie

#15. I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world ...

Roy Spencer

#16. You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.

Kevin Brockmeier

#17. Go ahead. Enjoy the hills and valleys, days and nights, and all the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#18. One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

Brian Eno

#19. Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the changes. We don't see these changes, because we see with them.

Rebecca Goldstein

#20. Any man who reads is a fine one.

Karen Marie Moning

#21. The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

Johnny Rich

#22. It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

Vladimir Lenin

#23. I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.

Barbara Degenevieve

#24. Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

Claudia Rankine

#25. I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

Amandla Stenberg

#26. Ideology follows the money."
"Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.

Lawrence Samuels

#27. He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.

E. M. Forster