There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.

- Elaine Pagels

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

- Juliana Hatfield

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

- Jamais Cascio

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

- Herbert A. Simon

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

- Henry Markram

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

- Gary Ross

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

- Edwin Way Teale

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

- Etgar Keret

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

- Emily Blunt

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

- Alan Perlis

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

- Edward Norton

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

- Dorothy Hodgkin

If there's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Israel.

- Donald Tusk

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

- Daniel Radcliffe

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

- Ben Marcus

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

- Ben Whishaw

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

- Antonia Bird

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

- Andy Stanley