Often remarked when hearing about new technological advances; quoted in Communications of the ACM http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=6325, pg. 231.
“Great physics does not automatically imply complicated mathematics!”
Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931) Dutch physicist
[Martinus Veltman, Facts and mysteries in elementary particle physics, World Scientific, 2003, 981238149X, 15, https://books.google.com/books?id=CNCHDIobj0IC&pg=PA15]
“In life, great people always come from having faced and complicated situations.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Nella vita, le grandi persone provengono sempre dall'aver affrontato e superato situazioni complicate.
Source: prevale.net
Liam Hemsworth (1990) Australian actor
Commenting on decreased physical role of his character from book The Hunger Games as changed for adaptation to film. — — [Davia L. Mosley, 'The Hunger Games' exclusive Cast members share highlights, behind-the-scenes action, Marietta Daily Journal, Georgia, United States, March 13, 2012]
“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”
Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) Polish writer
“The Great Architect of the universe built it of good stuff.”
Jules Verne book A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Ch. XXXI in the French text, Tr. William Butcher (1992)
James Jones book From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity (1951), p. 668
Context: Why was it everything was always so goddam complicated? Even the simplest things was so goddam complicated when you come to doing them.
Daniel Johns (1979) Australian musician
On how he learnt Guitar, Guitar School magazine, "Rock n' Roll high school" February 1996.
Interviews
“It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.”
Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
