| "It is quality rather than quantity that matters." »Seneca |
| "Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written." »Anonymous |
| "Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality." »George Santayana |
| "Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity." »Horace Mann |
| "... information can be treated like any other quantity and be subjected to the manipulation of a machine." »Stan Aogartem |
| "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up." »Mark Twain |
| "The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it." »Charles Dickens |
| "We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can." »Cullen Hightower |
| "I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." »Rmy de Gourmont |
| "Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple." »Gerald W. Grummet |
| "We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them." »Tsutomu Shimomura |
| "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi |
| "It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing." »Andrea Canaan |
| "It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully." »Doug Vargas |
| "Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face." »Vaclav Havel |
| "Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years." »William Golding |
| "We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world." »William Fullbright |
| "The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience." »John Updike |
| "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." »Albert Einstein |
| "An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" »Hoshang N. Akhtar |
| "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." »John Gall |
| "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." »Jorge Luis Borges |
| "One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings." »Franklin Thomas |
| "Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence." »Henri Estienne |
| "We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy." »George Macaulay Trevelyan |
| "Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them." »Eugene Paul Wigner |
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