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Sometimes I don’t know if my life is complicated, or if it’s that I just think too much about things.
John Scalzi (b. 1969) American writer
Zoe’s Tale, ch. 7 (2008)
Added on 8-Oct-14 | Last updated 8-Oct-14
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Topics: complicated, complications, life, ponder, think too much
More quotes by Scalzi, John The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.
Kenneth Ewart Boulding (1910-1993) American economist, educator, poet, philosopher
Speech, Friends Association for Higher Education Conference, Malone College (1986)
Added on 3-Feb-14 | Last updated 3-Feb-14
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Topics: complicated, simplistic, unintended consequences
More quotes by Boulding, Kenneth Ewart The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.
Kenneth Ewart Boulding (1910-1993) American economist, educator, poet, philosopher
Speech, 7th Friends Association for Higher Education Conference, Malone College (1986)
Added on 30-Dec-13 | Last updated 30-Dec-13
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Topics: complicated, model, over-simplify, unintended
More quotes by Boulding, Kenneth Ewart After all my time here, I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, didn’t become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson (1926-2001) American writer
Call Me Joe [Arne Viken] (1957)
Sometimes attributed to Arthur Koestler (who attributed the quote to Anderson). See
here for more details (and a reference to WIST).
Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 16-Jun-15
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Topics: challenge, complex, complicated, complication, obstacle, problem
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