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• Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

  Silvia Hartmann

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• Without complexity, there’s no intensity.

  Alexandra Adornetto

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• For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.

  Deborah Harkness

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• Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

  Christopher Alexander

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• You don’t always have to show art in what’s called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

  Zaha Hadid

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• The interesting thing about fiction from a writer’s standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

  Whitley Strieber

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• It’s something that people relate to – and I hope my kid doesn’t relate to – but there’s a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There’s great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.

  Jeremy Sisto

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• In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven’t dealt with, it comes out. That’s why you have a lot of artists that don’t make it through.

  Jeremy Sisto

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• Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  Lionel Trilling

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• In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

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• You can’t prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell – although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I’d say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn’t really looked at either painter’s work. Taste is a blood sport.

  Jerry Saltz

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• Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down – there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

  Dan Simmons

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• Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

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  Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

  John Green

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• 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

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• The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

  Scott Turow

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• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world.

  Christian Bale

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• 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

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• This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

  Edward Thorndike

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• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

  Edwin Way Teale

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