Quotes About Complexity

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

we now live in a society

Descoperea aceast? sl?biciune, îi era ciud? pe ea îns??i, dar nu p?rea s?-i reziste. Dragostea se hr?nea aÈ™adar din aceste himere, sentimentul acesta putea fi atât de impur? Uneori avea impresia c? era o juc?rie, juc?ria iluziilor ei sau juc?ria acelei fete care alterna tristeÈ›ea cu batjocura, cinismul cu naivitatea.

Living people mess you up. Living people are messy.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

The truth, we realize as we get older, is a very complicated pastiche of feelings and facts, of what can and cannot be said. It's different for everyone.

We have stressful habits that stand in the way of our desire for change and leave us feeling empty. We have fast-paced lifestyles filled with technological distractions and oversimplified solutions to complex problems that keep us from what we really need.

I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

One IT executive in an investment banking company claimed that 80 percent of his company's programming code was dedicated to linking disparate systems, as opposed to creating new capabilities.

Light and darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers and sisters. They are inseparable. This is why goodness is not always good, violence not always violent, life not always enlivening, death not always deadly.19

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

He loved him and considered him his best friend, yet he hated some of the things he did.

Complexity is a universal norm, while simplicity in your life is an achievable exception.

Each of us was born in an era when complexity has become the hallmark of our existence.

The infrastructure that holds society in place is based on increasingly sophisticated systems, technology, and complexity.

Today, merely being born guarantees that you will face a never-ending stream of complexity within your home, on the highway, at work, and everywhere in between.

Complexity confounds and debilitates us, causing us to spend untold numbers of hours and countless sums of money to diminish or undo what perhaps didn't need to be done at all.

Knowledge in the brain is distributed. Nothing we know is stored in one place, such as one cell or one column. Nor is anything stored everywhere, like in a hologram. Knowledge of something is distributed in thousands of columns, but these are a small subset of all the columns.

You can't simulate a brain without first understanding what it does.

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

What a remarkable conceit civilization is

Part of me wants to make this boy bruise, bleed, and sob, and part of me wants to soothe him and care for him. The tipically complex yearnings of the kinkily queer.

we need to acknowledge that building software isn't the same as working on an assembly line. You're not just building one more widget like the one you built a few minutes ago. Each new story we create software to support is something new.

By ignoring the apparent contradictions of scripture, fundamentalism ignores its questions, reducing its complexity to implicit equations. Hate equals love; obedience is freedom.