Quotes About Complexity

In spite of these three obstacles, Menard's fragmentary _Quixote_ is more subtle than Cervantes'.

En vano me repetí que un hombre acosado por un acto de cobardía es más complejo y más interesante que un hombre meramente animoso.

I leave to various future times, but not to all, my garden of forking paths.

A volte penso che i buoni lettori siano cigni ancor più tenebrosi e rari dei buoni autori.

Don't go on multiplying the mysteries,' Unwin said. 'They should be kept simple. Bear in mind Poe's purloined letter, bear in mind Zangwill's locked room.' 'Or made complex,' replied Dunraven. 'Bear in mind the universe.

It only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth. from "Nightmares

The two projects I have indicated (an infinite vocabulary for the natural series of numbers, and a usable mental catalogue of all the images of memory) are lacking in sense, but they reveal a certain stammering greatness. They allow us to make out dimly, or to infer, the dizzying world of Funes

It is venturesome to think that a coordination of words (philosophies are nothing more than that) can resemble the universe very much.

A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky.

Desvario laborioso e empobrecedor é o de compor vastos livros; o de espraiar por quinhentas páginas uma ideia cuja perfeita exposição oral cabe em poucos minutos.

La gloria é una forma di incomprensione, forse la peggiore.

Dicen que lo parió un fatigado vientre irlandés, pero se crió entre negros. En ese caos de catinga y de motas gozó el primado que conceden las pecas y una crencha rojiza. Practicaba el orgullo de ser blanco; también era esmirriado, chúcaro, soez.

Otálora no sabe si atribuir su reserva a hostilidad, a desdén o a mera barbarie.

Reality may be too complex for oral transmission; legend recreates it in a manner which is only accidentally false and which allows it to go about the world, from mouth to mouth.

Cada uno de nosotros es, sucesivamente, no uno, sino muchos. Y estas personalidades sucesivas, que emergen las unas de las otras, suelen ofrecer entre si los mas raros y asombrosos contrastes.

One line plus one line results in many meanings.

C'est une longue histoire, je crois. (...) Je désirais la lui raconter sans détours, mais je ne la voyais pas ainsi. Les histoires sont toujours pleines de détours.

Everything, all the time, is causing everything else.

a complicated story. Indeed all of these get to be pretty complicated. But Isis and her husband Osiris

Said Mr RothSchild, hell knows which Roth-schild 1861, '64 or there sometime, 'Very few people 'will understand this. Those who do will be occupied 'getting profits. The general public will probably not 'see it's against their interest.

Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon.

All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

In nature there are few sharp lines.