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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.