Quotes About Complexity

If I've learned anything in Kabul, it is that human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

A person has to have a flaw somewhere.

Baba melihat dunia ini dengan sudut pandang hitam putih. Dan dia dia harus menentukan mana yang hitam dan mana yang putih. Kita tak akan mungkin mencintai seseorang yang hidup dengan pandangan seperti ini tanpa merasa takut padanya. Bahkan mungkin sedikit membencinya.

Nothing like life, it questions with either no answers or messy ones.

Männer sind nicht kompliziert, sagte er und trommelte mit den Fingern auf seinen Mahagoni-Schreibtisch . Die Genitalien eines Mannes sind wie sein Verstand: simpel, sehr wenige Überraschungen. Aber die Damen sind da schon anders ... nun, der liebe Gott hat sich eben Gedanken gemacht, als er Sie und Ihre Geschlechtsgenossinen erschuf.

In my experience, men who understand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

In my experience, men who undestand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

It's always like this after a few days here. I start to lose my bearings. The surface is one way, but then there are all these other things going on, sometimes going back decades, swirling undercurrents that I just don't understand. [p. 336]

Easy is tasteless and bland

It's so much easier when everyone understands you can love two people at the same time." She flushed. "For different reasons and in different ways.

I loved Kisten. I wanted Ivy to bite me. It made sense, if I didn't think about it too hard.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.

Life is complex, and entropy is real.

Relationships were for that reason utterly mysterious, they took place between two subconscious minds, and whatever the surface trickle thought was going on could not be trusted to be right.

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

Of course I will like forever any woman who has gone to bed with me, as long as we don't become a couple and hate each other forever.

There is a real situation, that can't be denied, but it is too big for any individual to know in full, and so we must create our understanding by way of an act of the imagination.

He can't characterize this landscape yet, it's too new, but there's something inits complexity, the anarchic profusion of forms, that is mesmerizing to watch. Nothing has been planned. No two things are the same. And yet everything has an intense coherence.

I'm told finance doesn't require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed. So it's more just advanced programming

ease of representation. It's always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it.

It grew in the dark, it's a stack, a hyperobject, an accidental megastructure. No

I don't think you can get good answers to questions about—human nature. Better to think of it as a black box. You can't apply the scientific method. Not well enough to be sure of your answers.

Decisions are hard. Everyone has the halting problem.