Complexity Issues Quotes

We have entered an era where the kinds of data and analyses that people run have gotten incredibly complicated. So you have researchers using sophisticated software programs that they probably don't understand but are generally accepted and everyone [in the field] uses.

The A.M.T. is much reviled by tax experts across the political spectrum for its unintended consequences and fiendish complexity.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

The more complicated you make a Constitutional amendment …, the more contingencies for which you provide, the more difficult it is to get it passed.

Predictions are so often, so wrong ... The future is just too complicated.

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.

The remedies are neither easy, nor cheap, nor immediately realizable.

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right.

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.

Where you have complexity, by nature you can have fraud and mistakes. You'll have more of that than in a company that shovels sand from a river and sells it. This will always be true of financial companies, including ones run by governments. If you want accurate numbers from financial companies, you're in the wrong world.