Quotes About Complexity

Les retrouvailles sont des phénomènes si complexes qu'on ne devrait les effectuer qu'après un long apprentissage ou bien tout simplement les interdire.

Credo che non abbiamo la stessa concezione della parola "sentimento". Per me, voler fracassare la testa a qualcuno è un sentimento. Per lei, piangere sulla rubrica "La posta del cuore" di una rivista femminile è un sentimento.

L'amoureux est un être complexe qui cherche aussi à rendre heureux.

Hay bellezas que saltan a la vista y otras que están escritas en jeroglíficos.

Les retrouvailles sont des phénomènes si complexes qu'on ne devrait les effectuer qu'après un long apprentissage ou bien tout simplement les interdire. Elle

Il y a des beautés qui sautent aux yeux et d'autres qui sont écrites en hyéroglyphes: on met du temps à déchiffrer leur splendeur mais, quand elle est apparue, elle est plus belle que la beauté.

Interpretation of the ECG is as much an art as it is a science.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

None of us live single-issue lives... That is why intersectionality is a strength, not a weakness.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes and failures, a person that's full of joy and sorrow. I'm interested in people that are human beings that are alive.

I got to know Gore Vidal quite well, up front and personal: his magnificent strengths and his appalling, almost other-worldly weaknesses.

Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.