Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Wills

Ecologists have debated for decades over whether there is something of ecological value to species diversity. We found that in forests throughout the New and Old World tropics, older trees are more diverse than younger ones. In other words, diversity is actually selected for as each of the forests matures. This means diversity does indeed matter and is an essential property of these complex ecosystems.

Ben Bernanke

Economic management involves the operation of economic frameworks in real time - for example, in the private sector, the management of complex financial institutions or, in the public sector, the day-to-day supervision of those institutions.

If your end goal is to reduce complexity in types of formats, you have to juggle -- you need to demand adherence to a set of standards, a framework, or a stack.

Ariel Sharon

In the complex and complicated reality in which the country finds itself, I have no intention of standing at the head of a minority government for months on end,

Insurance has become so complex now, people depend more and more on the SHINE volunteers to be the experts.

I often hear people say that they have lost confidence in the European Union because they feel that it has taken on too many responsibilities and has become very complex and difficult to understand.

Joshua Lederberg

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

Elaine Pagels

I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.

Adam Ross

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.

Kirsten Prout

I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.

I don't own a helicopter because I want someone to bring me places quickly. I own it because it's an incredible machine that I like to fly and learn about. I like the complexity of it.

Natasha Lyonne

I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.

CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increasingly complex IT environments.

Identifying the various factors that might contribute to these differences between eastern and western regions is a very complex question that we must address.

Steven Pinker

I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools.

William Scott

I feel I can't teach you anything, what I can do is organize some material that may seem wildly complex when you first take a look at it. I've been working at it for such a long time I can at least organize it. So you can go home and teach yourself how to get control of it... I could throw an act, I can tell jokes and try to be stimulating, I can organize the books. If you don't want to do it, I can't do anything about it.

Before the game, we had all these complex designs on how do we stop this, how do we stop that.

Bob Taft

I recognize that motor fuel production and distribution are very complex processes that are influenced by a host of factors,

I love that they have such a grand vision but they can't underestimate the complexity of growing in the U.S. market.

Jim Haslett

In the situation we're in right now, we're living day to day, ... I don't know how many teams have ever traveled this much. We've been in four complexes in four weeks. But that had nothing to do with the way we played.

Thomas Friedman

In this era of mounting complexity with more people, systems and products entwined in a bewildering web of global networks, explaining is an enormously valuable skill.

It's a complicated task, ... I think Siebel just made it significantly more complex at a relatively late date.

It's a complex field getting more complex daily.

John Henderson

It's a fairly complex project to decide where a new facility should be. There's a lot more to it than getting ... a building.

Azim Premji

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

Robert Morse

They've raised an important complex question, but that's a sophisticated thing to try to answer.

It's an incredible and complex project that is nothing short of an engineering marvel.

It's going to be hard. It's a complicated task. I think Siebel just made it significantly more complex at a relatively late date,

Janet Napolitano

It's a very detailed and very complex operation,

E. O. Wilson

It's a very complex proposal and I really didn't understand it. I didn't think I was a dropout but maybe I am. I didn't understand it.

It's a very complex problem with few or no simple solutions.

It's a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work.

It's a very complex issue, and it's important we get it right.