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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Complexity Decay Expansion Means

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We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

~Caroline Kennedy

Topics: Afraid Again Al Al Gore Believes Complexity Gore Knows Made Need New Open President Society Tolerant Who World

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Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Black-And-White Clearly Complexity Culture Defined Easy Emotions Endings Narratives Our Thrive Thrust

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When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems - sometimes without spending a penny.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Altogether Ask Better Complexity Design Funding Government Left More Penny Poor Problem Problems Programs Right Scrap Solve Sometimes Spending Support Tend Them Those Want Whether While Without Working

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Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, 'Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?' I avoid the trap of easy definition.

~Cecil Taylor

Topics: Asked Avoid Complexity Defines Definition Easy Gay Humanity Me Once Said Someone Think Trap Word You

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The tax code's complexity adds enormous costs to families and businesses across the country and takes nothing short of an army of federal bureaucrats to enforce.

~Charles Boustany

Topics: Across Adds Army Bureaucrats Businesses Code Complexity Costs Country Enforce Enormous Families Federal Nothing Short Takes Tax

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If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: About Achievement Actually Arrangement Artistic Builds Complexity Conferred Convenience Equally Honorary Language Life Literary Matches Merit Only Page Realism Reality Rich Rules Safety Term Terms Were Work Would

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If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Any Architecture Branch Cheaply Complexity Computer Efficiently Exactly Get How Just Leaf Look Methods New Previous Produced Production Quickly Repetition Science Showing Similar Slight Tree Using Variation You

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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.

~Chris Sacca

Topics: Build Charge Complexity Easy Hard Simplicity Use

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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

~Christian Bale

Topics: Anchored Backpack Been Bit Breath Change Complexity Devoted Family Family Man Father Great Had He His Life Man Map Old Pocket Roaming Same Should Simply Somebody Suited Who World

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