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“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”
Winston Churchill
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
“Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity”
Erik Christopher Zeeman
“DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.”
Dave Barry
“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
“There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text”
Patrick Buchanan
“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.”
Jaron Lanier
“We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.”
Stephen Jay Gould
“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
“The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.”
L. Ron Hubbard