Quotes About Complexity

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it's so easy to make it complex.

No two snowflakes are alike.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

I specialized in transitional environments, and this particular location transitioned several times, meaning that it was home to a complexity of ecosystems.

You never know every part of yourself because you never encounter yourself in all situations.

Progress':a word to choke on, a word to discard and then pick up again, hurl it in the oven like coal, watch it spurl out its own name in black smoke from the chimney of the hunting lodge. I embrace it, and I repeat it, and yet I know no word I or any other human could use will ever be the right word.

There will never be a grand unified theory, Gloria. We will never find it. Not in our lifetimes, and it'll be too late.

Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely. When

I have come to have a great affection for monsters...

Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the number of mankind.

Writing fiction is like doing a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces turned upside down.

It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.

I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.