Quotes About Complexity

By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.

Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.

Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

People act like riddles are hard, but real life is harder. In real life, there are always more than two doors" -Sherm

People don't want to think about it.' 'I can see why,' I said. 'It makes my head hurt.' 'Still, you did better than most people. You're a pretty smart kid.' I rolled my eyes. 'Gee, thanks.

For many of us it seems that to be a feminist in the way that we have seen or understood feminism is to conform to an identity and way of living that doesn't allow for individuality, complexity, or less than perfect personal histories. We fear that the identity will dictate and regulate our lives, instantaneously pitting us against someone, forcing us to choose inflexible and unchanging sides, female against male, black against white, oppressed against oppressor, good against bad.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about. We mutter; we fumble; we blush; we purchase plush toys. None of it makes sense.

The same strength which has extended our power beyond a continent has also interwoven our destiny with the destiny of many peoples and brought us into a vast web of history in which other wills, running in oblique or contrasting directions to our own, inevitably hinder or contradict what we most fervently desire. We cannot simply have our way, not even when we believe our way to have the "happiness of mankind" as its promise.

There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

It is the nature of a business community that it deals with the covert forms of power in economic life and to be insensible to the significance and the complexity of more overt forms of power, even as it is insensible to the motive of the lust for power as an element in human nature.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Somos un todo, un nudo de relaciones que comprende también nuestros contactos con los demás, nuestros deseos y nuestras fantasías.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

The reason for this is that every person permits himself the liberty of making guesses in the matter of an obscure subject with more confidence than in one which is clear, and that it is much easier to have some vague notion about any subject, no matter what, than to arrive at the real truth about a single question however simple that may be. But

Tüm yöntem akl?n birtak?m gerçeklere varmak için çabas?n? yönlendirmek zorunda olduÄŸu konular?n s?ras?na ve konumuna dayan?r. Bunu sürdürebilmek için güçlük içeren ve muÄŸlak önermeleri aÅŸamal? olarak daha basite indirgemek, sonra da bunlar?n sezgisinden hareket ederek ayn? ÅŸekilde diÄŸer önermelerin bilgisine varmak gerekir.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Un homme sans défauts est une montagne sans crevasses. Il ne m'intéresse pas.

Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.