#complex

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ↗

— Gary Ross

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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