Quotes About Complexity

Kind of a treble agent, see?" Schaffer said in a patient explaining tone. "That's one better than double.

Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

Leaving this changeling for George, she washed his ripe fruit, and bit and broke the skin. An intense tang, the underside of velvet. Then flesh dissolved in a rush of nectar. Juice drenched her hand and wet the inside of her wrist. She had forgotten, if she'd ever know, that what was sweet could also be so complicated, that fruit could have a nap, like fabric, soft one way, sleek the other.

how ignorant he was; how childlike … He was simply beyond analysis; so simple

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

It's okay. We're all messed up in our own special way.

motherhood is like this: a series of tiny moments that add up to an enormous love, with lots of other moments of frustration and misunderstanding and complexity woven in between.

People can be cheering for you, Cleo, and also thinking you're starting to lose your mind. Two things can be true at once.

Because sometimes not liking someone is easier.

I've seen Joe Solomon every school day for more than a year, but I don't think I'll ever really know him. There are times when he's one of the strongest people I've ever known, and then there are moments--like this one--when I think he might be broken, deep down, in a place that will never mend.

pequeño, y pobre, y atrasado, donde no se cumplen las leyes físicas, donde la aritmética es opinable, moldeable como la plastilina, donde se divide entre todos el mérito de unos pocos y la responsabilidad de unos pocos se multiplica por todos para que nadie tenga nunca ningún mérito ni responsabilidad alguna, porque las cosas pasan solas, como por arte de magia o porque no les queda más remedio que pasar.

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.

Behe's concept of Irreducible Complexity sparks curiosity among scientists, caught between Darwinian theory and the possibility of Intelligent Design. Regardless of whether Irreducible Complexity will gain full scientific legitimacy, will be deemed a creationist theory, or will become a point of convergence between Science and Faith, it is interestingly an additional fuel to the scientific quest. - Aloo Denish

The language of biochemistry speaks volumes, deciphering the molecular code that underlies the complexity of living organisms. ~ Aloo Denish

El adjudicarle el término de amor a un fenómeno tan total era caer en una simpleza, en una inaudita superficialidad.

What often makes matching markets especially challenging is that everyone has to puzzle through not only their own desires but also those of everyone else and how all those other market participants might act to achieve their preferences.

There are too many of numbers for them to arise as a result of human intellectual activity. Consider, for example, the following series of functions: 2 lambda n is two to the second to the second .... to the second n times. The second member is ##2 (n); the third 3#2(n), etc.

Now Kant is by no means easy to understand, which is no doubt part of his charm. If you want to be a really great philosopher, make sure not to say too clearly what you have in mind (well, maybe that's not quite enough, but it's a good start);

He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.

What a tangle love is.

It's easy to recognize the surface of beauty. To see it with your two eyes. But the challenge to the artist is conveying the many layers underneath.

C'était justement parce qu'il n'y avait pas de mal en lui que je l'aimais beaucoup. C'était à cause de son étrangeté au mal que je n'avais pas d'amour pour lui. Pourtant, le mal ne me plaît pas . Mais un plat n'est sublime que s'il contient une touche de vinaigre.

La gente realmente intelligente e aperta non implorerebbe queste spiegazioni. Solo la gente volgare vuole spiegare tutto, anche quello che non si spiega. Perché dovrei dare spiegazioni che gli stupidi non comprenderebbero e di cui le menti più fini non avrebbero voglia?

L'amour : c'est une maladie qui rend mauvais. Dès que l'on aime vraiment quelqu'un, on ne peut s'empêcher de lui nuire, même et surtout si l'on veut le rendre heureux.