“Flavour is one of the most complex things you'll ever come across. It's a multi-sensory experience.”— Heston Blumenthal
“A universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind capable of understanding it.”— John David Barrow
“Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets.”— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”— Donella Meadows
“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
“Fundamentalism is the failure of nerve, the retreat into certainty in the face of complexity.”— William D. Tammeus
“What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.”— Marvin Minsky
“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.”— Benoit Mandelbrot
“If you have a problem and you think you can solve it with a thread, now you have two problems.”— Jamie Zawinski