Complexity Quotes

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." "No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness." "Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler." "I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." "The truth is rarely pure and never simple." "Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things" "I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that" "Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face" "Layer upon layer, it gets deeper and deeper" "I don't see the world in a binary way" "I'm not trying to be the young ingenue that can't make mistakes or the bad girl that tells it like it is." "The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective" "Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems" "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." "I'm not Mother Teresa but I'm not Charles Manson, either" "The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had" "Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people" "I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood." "The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks." "If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet."