Complexity Management Quotes

Globalization is very difficult to understand and almost impossible to regulate.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

Our live set's become increasingly complex recently; we've been doing stuff that's been vastly too much information for most people to deal with and I think it's quite interesting watching how people behave in those situations, under those circumstances.

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

With a lot of the things that seem scalable, you will find bottlenecks you never imagined that you suddenly need to find solutions for.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.

We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.

Scaling is multidimensional. Different methods address different things.

Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.

When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

Don't let complexity stop you.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.