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I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

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.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?