Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Don't let complexity stop you."
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Complexity
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Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"Complexity is the enemy of execution!"
Will Wright
Game Designer
"And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity."
L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity."
Douglas Adams
Writer, Humorist
"The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome."
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"Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others."
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"What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful."
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"There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity."
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"The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts."
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"There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable."
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"The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity"
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"The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity."
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"It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause."
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"Out of complexity, find simplicity!"
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"This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine."
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"Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability."
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"I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake."
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"Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it."
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"If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will."
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"Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity."
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"If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking."
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"I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz."
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"The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth."
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