Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed -- but never the husband).
James Thurber
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Rand Beers
Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today because of the improvements.
Richard Rhodes
The tremendous sophistication and collaborative work that goes on in communities, which are under siege, they're desperately impoverished, and the backbone of all of that are the women of Africa.
Stephen Lewis
What we tried to do is take a quantum leap in sophistication and scope. It gives you a picture of the truly complex nature of what we are trying to do.
Timothy Adams
They brought a level of sophistication in equipment that we weren't able to do as volunteers. That has really enhanced the run over the past couple of years.
Jim Bradley
Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion.
Helen Rowland
For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
Hal Borland
We've never seen a virus of this type that has the capabilities, the sophistication and the potential to do such widespread damage so quickly across computer networks.
Peter Watkins
These beings have no other profession than to cultivate the idea of beauty in their person, to satisfy their passions, to feel and to think.
Charles Baudelaire