Quotes About Complexity

les Péruviens n'ont jamais eu aucun autre procédé d'écriture, alors qu'ils possédaient une langue très parfaite et très raffinée ; cette sorte d'idéographie était rendue possible par de multiples combinaisons dans lesquelles l'emploi de fils de couleurs différentes joue un rôle important.

I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in your life that you've probably confused me with them all.

Wine is so complex, I mused. Thousands of experts and hundreds of thousands of amateur experts would rhapsodize or vilify the vinification of these seemingly simple bunches of grapes. But in the end, it was just these innocuous clusters, photosynthesis, rain or no rain, cool ocean breezes, alluvial soils, that produced these epiphanies in the bottle hundreds and thousands of miles away.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

What are you, a scientist, or an artist?" Wolfe was frowning at him. "If you please, Mr. Jarrett, no labels. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. (Nero Wolfe)

there's a hell of a lot more to Jase Beckett than just his huge cock and his fat bank account.

We're up against a public that wants a smoking gun . . .We know the public wants, demands, something simple. And we're also very much aware that we live in a time of rampant science denial. Nobody does nuance anymore.

La ambigüedad desempeña un papel central e imprescindible, y su carácter universal no refleja otra cosa que su inevitabilidad.

La ambigüedad, lejos de ser una carga, representa la clave de un lenguaje óptimo flexible. Y esta propiedad es seguramente universal.

After all, almost everyone I know, even my very oldest friends, remain, in important ways, a mystery to me.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

Sift through my insanity and revel in my greatness

The sergeant's account of his past was ancient in its form and confusingly dramatic, as perhaps would have been a game of three-level chess between Richard Burbage and Sacha Guitry.

The Kennedy brothers seemed neither as grand and omniscient as the "court histories" that sprang up after the president's assassination portrayed them, nor as cunning and shameless as later books, such as Seymour Hersh's The Dark Side of Camelot, argued. They were both self-creative and self-destructive.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Closely related to differential racialization—the idea that each race has its own origins and ever-evolving history—is the notion of intersectionality and antiessentialism. No person has a single, easily stated, unitary identity.

The Chinese believe in constant change, but with things always moving back to some prior state. They pay attention to a wide range of events; they search for relationships between things; and they think you can't understand the part without understanding the whole. Westerners live in a simpler, more deterministic world; they focus on salient objects or people instead of the larger picture; and they think they can control events because they know the rules that govern the behavior of objects.

Zen Buddhist dictum that "the opposite of a great truth is also true.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).

Here, race was so difficult and complicated, it was a kaleidoscope you could keep on turning.