Part of the problem for the invisible manwas that he was invisibletohimself,that hedidn'tgrasphisowncomplexity.

-Ellison, RalphWaldo
  Quoted by Keith Botsford in Ellison's obituary,18  Apr1994, in The Independent.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts† A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity.Lines of light ranged inthenon- space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

-Gibson,William Ford
  Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

-James,William
  The Principles of Psychology, ch.9.

The most important single thing in publishing is the English sentence, and the editor who cannot contemplate it again and again with a sense of wonder has not yet gained respect for the complexity of learning.

-Jovanovich,William
  Now, Barabbas.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

-Trillin, Calvin Marshall
  The Liberal Imagination, preface.