#complex

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #complex




How do I love thee? wondered Orion. "Let me see. I love thee passionately and eternally...obviously eternally-that goes without saying." Holly blinked sweat from her eyes. "Is he serious?" she called over her shoulder to Foaly. "Oh, absolutely," said the centaur "If he asks you to look for birthmarks, say no immediately." "Oh, I would never." Orion assured her. "Ladies don't look for birthmarks; that is work for jolly fellows like the Goodly Beast and myself. Ladies, like Miss Short, do enough by simply existing. They exude beauty, and that is enough." "I am not exuding anything." said Holly, through gritted teeth. Orion tapped her shoulder. "I beg to differ. You're exuding right now, a wonderful aura. It's pastel blue with little dolphins." Holly gripped the wheel tightly. "I'm going to be sick. Did he just say pastel blue?" "And dolphins, little ones," said Foaly.


Eoin Colfer


#foaly #holly #orion #romance #beauty

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


#animal #associations #case #complexity #delicacy

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.


Roby James


#complex #systems #change

Any intelligent 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.


E.F. Schumacher


#elegance #genius #inspirational #simplicity #violence

Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.


Richard Diaz


#design #engineered #simple #design

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.


Edsger Wybe DIJKSTRA


#elegance #simple #simplicity #virtue #education

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.


Maya Angelou


#inferiority-complex #education

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.


Joyce Carol Oates


#art #complexity #writing #art

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.


C. J. Cherryh


#ethic #family #feed #fight #fighting

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.


E.M. Forster


#artists #complexity #friendship #music #musicians