complexity Quotes

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is... ...

"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already... ...

For good is simple, evil manifold.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And... ...

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd just use that old piece of software. So there are no repetitive tasks.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.