Complexity Thinking Quotes

#1. When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

Richard Branson

#2. Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues.

Pearl Zhu

#3. If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. Complexity mumbles. Simplicity speaks

Ted Agon

#5. We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

Eckhart Tolle

#6. Oversimplifying is the first grave mistake we make when confronted by complexity; overconfidence is the second. And there is a third: based on our overconfidence in our oversimplified conclusions, we overreact.

Ted Cadsby

#7. It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness of its identity and of its place in space and time. Welcome to the human brain, the cathedral of complexity.

Peter Coveney

#8. I think it's so important to remember the complexity of things.

Francesca DiMattio

#9. I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

Hilary Liftin

#10. I've done a number of films. I've been around this. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the script right, the way that you want the script to be. It's really about capturing the complexity of emotions and creating the kind of characters that people will want to watch every week.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

DJ Spooky

#12. I didn't think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a cloak of complexity and elusiveness, but Lisa Rogak has done an exemplary job of it.

Otto Penzler

#13. Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening

Jean G. Boulton

#14. I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

Jessica Valenti

#15. Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.

Wells Tower

#16. Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.

Ted Cadsby

#17. I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

Hillary Clinton

#18. We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

Ai Weiwei

#19. A change in Quantity also entails a change in Quality

Friedrich Engels

#20. But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.

Marcus Sakey

#21. What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

Terence McKenna

#22. I think that I am among the few lucky ones who are exploiting complexity. Most people are unhappy with the emergence of complexity, they would prefer it if the world were very simple, but then it would be a doom for a cryptographer like myself.

Adi Shamir

#23. You have to record as many details as possible and achieve an order, without taking away the complexity of the real. To voice the real and at the same time to create an image that is a world in itself, with its own coherence, its autonomy and sovereignty; an image that thinks

Luc Delahaye

#24. I do think that in some ways, the complexity of technology, the things that we all have to deal with in media, have created a new kind of person that is sensitive to media, but also sensitive to the kind of beliefs that people have. And this person can put the two together.

Jeff Goodby

#25. I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

Stephen Hawking

#26. When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Jeff VanderMeer

#27. It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).

Christopher Meledandri

#28. 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

#29. The process of thinking itself requires us to view the universe in the direction of entropy, since an abstraction always involves information loss, since symbols 'abstract' complexity from observed objects.

John C. Wright

#30. I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the gas and turn left. In fact, it's probably one of the most complex sports in existence.

Janet Guthrie

#31. Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.

Gary Zukav

#32. The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

Thane Rosenbaum

#33. My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

Michael Loceff