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Complexity Quotes
These complexity quotes look at how systems, from tax codes to software projects, grow more tangled over time, and how people make sense of a world that often feels too complicated to take in all at once.
Complexity shows up everywhere: in bureaucratic rules, growing codebases, and the sheer scale of modern life. This collection gathers quotes about complexity, offering perspective for anyone who feels Because things keep getting more complicated, not less.
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Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
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With technological advances, there's a very natural curve between cost and complexity and adoption. When the cost and complexity are high, the adoption rate is - let's call it 'modest.'
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We all have complexity in our lives.
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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
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The A.M.T. is much reviled by tax experts across the political spectrum for its unintended consequences and fiendish complexity.
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