“The theory of roughness, the theory of the irregular, of the chaotic, is now at the center of science.”— Benoit Mandelbrot
“Surely there are more levels of organization between human ethology and DNA than there are between DNA and quantum electrodynamics.”— Philip Warren Anderson
“When you cover politics, you realize that it's not a game of checkers. It's a game of three-dimensional chess.”— Jeff Greenfield
“If you look at the world, the world is a very complicated place. I'm not a big fan of it, but it's the world we live in.”— Abdullah II of Jordan
“Any classification is a violation of the richness of the material, but without it we cannot see the woods for the trees.”— Marston Bates
“If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.”— Barry Commoner
“I came to a gradual realization that the UFO problem was not as simple as I had first thought.”— J. Allen Hynek
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”— John von Neumann
“A lot of the security flaws you see today are because of complexity. People can't see the whole picture.”— Theo de Raadt
“Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. Anything that is trivial is presented in only one way.”— Stephen Wolfram