Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
—Herman Melville
Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
—Tom Robbins
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
—Will Rogers
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
—Thor Heyerdahl
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
—John Gaule