1. Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. ~Albert Einstein
2. Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. ~Michael Palin
3. 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
4. Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ~Alan Perlis
5. From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. ~Abdus Salam
6. 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 Simon
7. I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. ~Leo Tolstoy
8. I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau
9. In today's complex and fast-moving world, what we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insight. ~Unknown
10. It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it. ~Ralph Marston
11. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne. ~Alice Childress
12. Man is a complex being who makes deserts bloom and lakes die. ~G. B. Stern
13. My job is like having to put together a 1,000-piece puzzle, but I don't have the box top with the picture of what it looks like, and some pieces are missing. ~Laura Ipsen, Cisco
14. One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. ~Franklin Thomas
15. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. ~Edwin Way Teale
16. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. ~Alan Perlis
17. Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. ~Dr. Laurence J. Peter
18. The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. ~Douglas Horton
19. The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. ~Alice Munro
20. We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control. ~Seth Lloyd
21. We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today. ~John W. Thompson
22. We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today. ~John W. Thompson
23. While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. ~Unknown