“Most of the world is of great roughness and infinite complexity. However, the infinite sea of complexity includes two islands of simplicity: one of Euclidean simplicity and a second of relative simplicity in which roughness is present but is the same at all scales.”

“… the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”

“The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.”

“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge”

“31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

“Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.”

“The systems view is the emerging contemporary view of organized complexity, one step beyond the Newtonian view of organized simplicity, and two steps beyond the classical world views of divinely ordered or imaginatively envisaged complexity.”

“Simplicity of structure means organic unity, whether the organism be simple or complex; and hence in all times the emphasis which critics have laid upon Simplicity, though they have not unfrequently confounded it with narrowness of range.”

“Decentralized systems are the quintessential patrons of simplicity. They allow complexity to rise to a level at which it is sustainable, and no higher.”

“Engaging in complexity is a key to simplicity. Fear of it will haunt your inner recesses.”