Quotes About Complexity

We can never fully understand the how, where, and when of anything, even something as simple as boiling water. We have to surrender to uncertainty, while appreciating its intricate beauty. All

Innocence is our natural state, before it becomes covered over. What covers it over is self-image. When we look at ourselves, even when we're trying to be completely honest, we see an image built up over many years, in layers that are complexly woven together. The lines and wrinkles that develop in a person's face tell the story of past happiness and sadness, triumph and defeat, ideals and experiences. It is almost impossible to see anything else.

Belief systems are complex—they hold together the self we want to present to the world. It is much simpler not to have beliefs, which means being open to life as it comes your way, going with your own inner intelligence instead of with stored judgments.

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way [i.e., randomly] is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.

The economy, like science or art, is more like an organism growing uncertainly toward the light than a steel machine repeating exactly today and tomorrow what it did yesterday.

Good is not always good.

Love is almost never simple.

Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

Quite soon, as we move from genes to the proteins that they code for, and then on to the interactions between these proteins, the problems become seriously complicated.

Much contemporary popular writing on genetics assumes that it should be possible to reconstruct living systems from the bottom up, starting with the raw DNA code. And that is precisely the sort of procedure we have just seen to be so entirely impracticable. Clearly, we need first to narrow the options. And there is only one way to do that; we must observe how nature itself has narrowed the options.

La transparencia avanza pero la opacidad también.

What's going on behind those green eyes?" "So much." "Tell me." It

Do not dissect a rainbow. In other words, do not destroy a beautiful phenomenon by overanalyzing it.

Nikki said he got Susan pregnant when she was thirteen.' Lizzie nods and cringes and gives a little grunt. 'It's very young.' She grunts non-committally again, shrugs and takes another biscuit. 'I can't explain that you.' 'Isn't he a paedophile then?' 'Yeah, technically. But then he was still with her until she was nineteen, so then what?

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

There's something ugly about the flawless.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity

And the reason parenting is becoming increasingly crucial is that we now live in a world that is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.

Dans les affaires de cœur et émotions, malgré les meilleures intentions et de vastes océans de l'amour profond à l'intérieur, personne n'a encore été capable d'aimer quelqu'un comme tout le monde veut être aimé. Et que ya un aspect paradoxal intéressante de l'amour!

There're only two kinds of people in this world- those who think that there are two kinds of people, and those who know the truth.

40% of the Native American population may be of another race (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005),