Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.
The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.
You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.
Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?
The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
I do want people to have a sense of just the extreme level of meticulousness and care that goes into everything. I wouldn't expect anybody to catch all the details of what I'm doing. The level of obsession is so extreme.
Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.
Simplicity is a most complex form
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it's way more intricate than what meets the surface.
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
I think complexity is beautiful.
We live in a bewildering world.
I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.
...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness
