Quotes About Complexity

So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.

How can I explain what I myself don't understand?

It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form," she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex." It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.

Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are.

Rose, you really do scare me sometimes. Just not for the reasons I originally thought you would.

To say my friends were living a soap opera was an understatement. They almost made my dangerous relationship with Adrian look boring.

Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman— For they are strange and mysterious creatures,and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.

bewildering patchwork of technologies that are inefficient, hard to change, and rigid.

The exploitation phase needs people who thrive on designing effective processes and making things systematic. The disengagement phase requires those who are good at seeing early evidence of decline and unafraid to make the sometimes-difficult decisions to stop doing something. In an organization of any complexity, part of the challenge from the strategists' point of view is that you will have many such waves playing out, in different phases, all at the same time.

People aren't static; they're dynamic—endlessly complex and capable of tremendous surprise and change.

There are more atoms than molecules, but a molecule is more complex than an atom. There are more molecules than cells, but a cell is more complex than a molecule. And so on up the hierarchy it goes, with increasingly complex levels of organization at each higher level.

This is a pattern. Something bonded with something like it, and that introduced something new, something more complex, something that previously didn't exist. Something the universe had never seen before. All because of a drive. A drive to bond, to unite, to come together. Where does this drive come from? It comes from within. This

Holism is when two plus two equals infinity.

There are no perfect relationships. There are no perfect partners. Relationships by their very nature are chaotic, eventful, and challenging.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

this has more aspects than a cat has hair.

Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers.

It's not that easy. You can make omelet from eggs, but not eggs from omelet.

the ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them.

Smith used English as one might use a code book, with tedious and imperfect translation for each symbol.