Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.
There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing when you're younger as an artist you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.
A lot of the times we don't see enough of strength. Imagery is obviously a large part of it. I think it's important to see her [Michelle Obama] passion, her complexity, and to see her be challenged. Whether it's about forgiveness, or wanting to do more, it's what it is.
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.
Don't let complexity stop you.
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes. " You carry the terrain in your mind.
Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing when you reverse it. Much of Africa is presented through poverty, through drought and war. [But] you're not presenting people, you're not presenting countries, you're not presenting complexity, and so people can't care about an amorphous mass called Africa.
I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?"
My goal is to simplify complexity.
There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bushs presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted from the gut, and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.
Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
