Quotes About Complexity

Since when have you ever failed at something once and given up? It's an excuse, Eve- a simple excuse for avoiding the very complex problem that's you and me, and everything we did and didn't do once upon a time. You aren't ready yet. I know that. And I'll wait until you are

smart. I'm pretty smart myself. I know that smart doesn't mean nice, or even mean that you have a lot of common sense. Look at all the trouble smart people get themselves into.

I didn't fall in love with Jake because he was smart. I'm pretty smart myself. I know that smart doesn't mean nice, or even mean that you have a lot of common sense. Look at all the trouble smart people get themselves into.

Because love isn't just love. It's all he other stuff, too.

Because love isn't just love. It's all the other stuff, too.

Did he judge on appearance alone? would he judge me? Goth doesn't cut it when it comes to a word that describes me. I'm complex. Complicated. No one gets me, and I like it that way.

You never get cheered for telling people the situation is not as simple as they think.

And when things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

The sight of them all made Caris marvel: each individual had a different life, every one of them rich and complex, with dramas in the past and challenges in the future, happy memories and secret sorrows, and a crowd of friends and enemies and loved ones.

It pleased Aliena that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack's mother, and Aliena's brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Aliena could almost forget that her father had died in a dungeon, and she was legally married to Jack's stepbrother, and Ellen was an outlaw, and— She shook her head. It was no use pretending this was a normal family.

you should never believe a politician with simple answers.

The easy problems get solved right away, so only the hard ones are left. That's why you should never believe a politician with simple answers.

Now they tell me a psychopath's a guy fights too much and fucks too much, but they ain't wholly right, do you think?

The cure for the disaster of modernity is to address the dissociation, not attempt to erase the differentiation!

Thought is sequential, successive, one-dimensional, while the real world presents itself as a multidimensional, non-successive, simultaneous pattern of infinite richness and variety; and trying to make the one grasp the other is like trying to appreciate a beautiful landscape by looking through a narrow slit in a fence or trying to take in a Renoir painting by microscope alone.

evolution meanders more than it progresses. But over the long haul, evolution has a broad telos, a broad direction, which is particularly obvious with increasing differentiation—an atom to an amoeba to an ape!

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

They most definitely and strongly believed that it is universally true that there is no universal truth.

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.