Quotes About Complexity

There are ecological, biological, sociological, and psychological problems that can never be solved to make this idea work. The physical problems of propulsion have capture your fancy, and perhaps they can be solved, but they are the easy ones.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Bad things don't just grow on one path, they're everywhere.

She dismissed his puzzled frown with a wave.—We're deeper than we can see. There are other people down inside us doing things. We get carried along by what they do.

Group dynamics were complex at best, even (he grimaced) unexplainable.

not in any single system, but in the stack of all systems, the accidental megasystem. It

The world is like a tree, from every leaf you can work back to the roots.

he had forgotten, if he had ever begun to understand, how small a part people played in others' lives and how little they knew about them, even if they saw them every day.

Let complication thrive.

El cálculo, la teoría de variable compleja, la teoría cualitativa de ecuaciones diferenciales, la teoría de grupos y la geometría diferencial estaban cubiertas;

The less there is to look at, the more important it is that we look at it closely and carefully. This is critical to abstract art. Small differences make all the difference.

In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which is ambiguity and multi-valence.

Du er ogsaa Kunstnersjæl, Skønaand, en Smagens Mand, et Artistgemyt,en Bohême, en Satan. Men du er ogsaa Poet. Fan ved hva du er altsammen, du er meget spredt.

Oh, a woman can't tell one man from another; not always—not often.

Evangeline, he sighed. It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?

How much longer are we going to do this? We have to talk about what happened. With a harsh laugh, he'd turned to me. It's very simple. I want you, you want another, and I'm owed a wife.

Or maybe I was learning that nothing was black and white.

Nix was so beautiful yet so damaged. - Uilleam MacRieve ~

Nix: I'm actively involved in steering the lives of thousands of beings. Which directly affects hundreds of thousands, which indirectly affects millions, with a ripple effect reaching billions. If someone said, 'It ain't easy being Nïxie,' I wouldn't cal him a liar.

All of your sarcastic— Multilayered. —answers will not help your cause. You're very flippant about these proceedings.

I think you are just like this house, Evangeline. Rich and fine on the outside, but no one's got a clue what's going on inside.

Portia's lips thinned. You think that because we're pure evil, we can't love? I think that because you love, you can't be pure evil, Nix countered.

Darkness does not always equal bad and Light does not always mean good.

Yes, Robert Dade does make me feel powerful, vulnerable, light . . . and sometimes a little scared.