#complexity

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#any #anything #back #basic #classes

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. ↗

— Scott Turow

#complexity #narrative #present #purpose #us

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#being #believes #complexity #deal #father

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#boy #complexity #diversity #evolution #i

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#because #change #complexity #crummy #expensive

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#because #capable #complexity #control #entirely

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #because #complex #complexity #culture

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#humanity-complexity #humor #mind #funny

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on. ↗

— Marsha Mason

#emotional #emotional life #life #live #play