“It is a great error to speak of the things of the world absolutely, and as it were, by rule.”— Francesco Guicciardini
“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
“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
“Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, cunning, mysterious, frustrating, maddening, sensible, nonsensical, simple, complicated, cerebral, physical, spontaneous, studied, elusive, attainable, honorable, and dishonorable game.”— Amy Alcott
“When you cover politics, you realize that it's not a game of checkers. It's a game of three-dimensional chess.”— Jeff Greenfield
“Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.”— Bjarne Stroustrup
“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”— Alan Kay