Quotations And Sayings About Complexity
1. Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
- Alan Perlis
2. Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.
- Pete Seeger
3. Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.
- Ben Huh
4. Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
- Christopher Alexander
5. The only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found in the far side of complexity.
- Alfred North
6. The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
- Robert Brault
7. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
- Edwin Way Teale
8. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
- Alan Perli
9. There's beauty in simplicity and horror in complexity.
- Unknown
10. I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
- Brian Eno
11. Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
