Top 480 Complex Quotes

People are complex. I’m just showing my complexity.
Juliana Hatfield
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.
Ken Goldberg
Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.
Toni Tennille
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
Anthony Braxton
You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I’m not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.
Dennis Kucinich
In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.
Gunter Blobel
Whatever we take from a film – personal, public, private, subconscious – a list can only contain moments that are often a key to the recognition of something more complex.
Lynne Ramsay
If a doctor said you had stomach cancer, would you consult Rush Limbaugh for a second opinion? Of course, that sounds like nonsense, but many Americans have no qualms about listening to political commentators and untrained activists when it comes to even more complex scientific questions.
Kurt Eichenwald
People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.
Rihanna
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Warren Buffett
Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.
David Brin
Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.
Eliyahu Goldratt
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wro

The mere existence of ‘Buffy’ proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different – to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices.
Virginia Postrel
So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I’ve told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn’t out-do my brothers in sports, and it’s a very competitive relationship.
George J. Mitchell
I never call them ‘guys;’ I always call them ‘boys.’ Maybe it’s a superiority complex – my needing to keep them down.
Megan Fox
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.
Tony Tan
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
Alan Kay
The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can’t stick our heads in the sand and say ‘it can’t happen to me.’
Brande Roderick
O’Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
Gabriel Byrne
We will depend on American students who can turn their literacy in coding and computer science into creative solutions that address the complex problems facing our nation.
Abigail Spanberger
Whether politicians are dealing with complex policy problems or trying to communicate with the electorate, it makes sense to establish a clear, long term narrative underpinned by forward-looking policies to deliver on its vision.
Anthony Albanese
Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.
Ezra Miller
The thing that got me started on the science that I’ve been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can’t make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?
Stephen Wolfram
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
Alex Shoumatoff
I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.
Ben Bernanke
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
Henry Taube
Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can’t add or read?
Naveen Jain
I think I’m better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that’s something I’m working on now. I’m not really that difficult or complex a person, so it’s interesting to me that it’s just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.
Christina Ricci
The fact is, Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neurophysical tests that he’ll never sit for.
Mary L. Trump
AIDS is a complex situation that’s sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.
Niki de St. Phalle
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry – people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
Adam Grant
I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It’s a complex one, because it’s easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.
Anna Chancellor
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless – why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
Upamanyu Chatterjee
I’m so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
Gia Coppola
Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another.
Nick Hanauer
I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble… and drama. It’s either I’m working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It’s a little hectic.
Emily Meade
I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.
Garret Dillahunt
I’m not looking to do ‘Half Nelson’ next, but to play anything that’s a little more complex is really fun.
John Krasinski
The complex develops out of the simple.
Colin Wilson
A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That’s a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective.
Michael Dickinson
Science is evidence-based and provides a continuing understanding of complex natural phenomena. Our understanding is constantly evolving and continually improving.
Priyamvada Natarajan
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has d

Linux is its own worst enemy: it’s splintered, it has different distributions, it’s too complex to run for most people.
Nicholas Negroponte
I’m interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.
Ben Nicholson
I’m glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren’t violent, that aren’t complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.
Nolan Bushnell
An author’s life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character’s remains frozen in one little story.
Lorrie Moore
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things – like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
David Mitchell
Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that’s what I do very well.
Justin Trudeau
China’s censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
Rebecca MacKinnon
It’s always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.
Philippe Petit
I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, ‘I’m sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.’
Oscar de la Renta
We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
C. V. Raman
Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure.
Isabel Gillies
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
Ann Druyan