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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

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My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

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There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#complex #fit #long #many #powerpoint

So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.' ↗

— Tim Vine

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I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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