Quotes About Complexity

I don't think it's really about being bitchy or demanding or cold or calculating: those characteristics, after all, can be attached to most women with even the paltriest of evidence. I think, quite frankly, that the world simply does not care for the complicated girls, the ones who seem too dark, too deep, too vibrant, too opinionated...

Negaliu pak?sti minties, kad asmenyb?s raid? ir vis? individuali? savybi? rinkin? galima paaiškinti paprastai tokie buvo laikai.

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic—I was the attic itself.

And you know how it is with things that mean a lot to you. They get heavy. They drive you crazy. They make life worth living, they make life unliveable, you can't stay, you can't go, there's not enough tequila in all of Mexico to straighten out your mind, years go by and nothing ever changes. This face is one that will make you weak forever.

I mean, the reason I do drugs is because the world is so capricious and unpredictable. You do nice things, and people are mean in return, or you act like an ogre, and people are incredibly kind in response. Sometimes a plus b equals c, but lots of times it doesn't.

It's a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little.

We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

Meanwhile, the original programmers will have left, and their replacements -- believing they understand the code -- will make some truly spectacular errors, mistakes that will suddenly make everything completely stop working for a while. So that what had seemed to be a descending curve of bugs, a fall toward the ever-receding zero, will reveal itself as the shape of another equation altogether: a line of relentlessly rising, bug-counts climbing in an endless battle against infinity.

Usually he overdid things, this time he got it right, or as right as something only equivocally right in itself can be got.

Simplicity does not need to be simple. Instead it should be forged of complexity that has been compressed and synthesized.

Logic is the youth of mathematics, mathematics is the manhood of logic." This brilliant mot of the eminent philosopher of mathematics is no

An ideal map would contain the map of the map, the map of the map of the map.,endlessly. This characteristic was first discovered by Royce. We may call it self-reflexiveness.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

The laws of economics are to be compared with the laws of the tides, rather than with the simple and exact law of gravitation. For the actions of men are so various and uncertain, that the best statement of tendencies, which we can make in a science of human conduct, must needs be inexact and faulty.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.

the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Seek simplicity and distrust it.

But crucially, the difficulties surrounding racial classification also meant that definitions of black and white remained indeterminate.

the concept of race simply refused to provide unambiguously different types. To put it differently, no 'pure' races could be identified.