#complex

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#science #systems #science

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#been #clean #complex #end #focus

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#everything #making #more #more and more

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #areas #attraction #cannot #complex

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#complexity #layered #modules #other #out

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#assumptions #characters #complex #everyone #i

In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#complex #daily #daily work #distributed #example

If someone knows of a job creator anywhere in the world that's looking for a high, complex tax environment or looking for a high regulatory environment, I would like to meet them because I have yet to meet a job creator that's looking for that, and that's what we have. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#because #complex #creator #environment #high

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#borrowed #complex #i #learned #listened

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#came #complex #diamond #england #everybody