“..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.”

“Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.”

“The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.”

“The more complex the strategy, the less truth there is in it.”

“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”

“There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.”