"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
- Ernst F. Schumacher
"Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multi..."
- M. Scott Peck
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
- Confucius
"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable."
- Howard Pattee
"To love is to think.And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her.I don’t know what I want at all, even from her, and I don’t think about anything but her.I have a great animated distractio..."
- Alberto Caeiro
"Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever."
- Criss Jami
"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simp..."
"People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything."
- Gary Hopkins
"We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex."
- Chuck Klosterman