Complex Quotes

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Gymnastics is so complex.

And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

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.

In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Woman are complex creatures.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

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