Quotes About Complexity

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

But it's not that simple or clear-cut—and I wonder if it ever is when it comes to matters of the heart.

or are there always shades of gray when it comes to matters of the heart?

I desperately want to feel that way again. To be in a relationship that I'm not trying to script or water down. It's about wanting something real—even if it's messy and complicated.

Somewhere between good and bad - bits of both stuck together. Ma

I thought humans were or weren't, I didn't know someone could be a bit human. Then what are his other bits?

Jenny was easy to enjoy but hard to know.

She] was easy to enjoy but hard to know." ... "It's unbearable, the not knowing.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Sometimes being a genius was a burden.

Disorder created connections??that is, resonance.

This is going to be the most . . . what is that name—Goldberg? Yes, Rube Goldberg–inspired operation I have ever imagined. Are you sure that we do not need to trigger it all with a hamster on a wheel? I dunno, Jackie said. Do you have a hamster on board? Let me check the medical supplies . . .

Lincoln spoke of slaveholders not as reprobates and sinners but as men and women enmeshed in a system from which they could not disentangle themselves. "They are just what we would be in their situation

Though the web of history cannot be unravelled into separate threads without destroying it, a certain amount of subdivision of the subject is, for practical purposes, essential.

History does not consult the convenience of historians, though some of them are not always aware of it.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

the word love has no decent definition!

My central premise is that although the reductionist approaches of scientists and artists are not identical in their aims—scientists use reductionism to solve a complex problem and artists use it to elicit a new perceptual and emotional response in the beholder—they are analogous.

When you feel the urge to design a complex binary file format, or a complex binary application protocol, it is generally wise to lie down until the feeling passes.

Mixing languages is better than writing everything in one, if and only if using only that one is likely to overcomplicate the program.

Are the individual functions in your modules too large? This is not so much a matter of line count as it is of internal complexity. If you can't informally describe a function's contract with its callers in one line, the function is probably too large.9 9 Many years ago, I learned from Kernighan & Plauger's The Elements of Programming Style a useful rule. Write that one-line comment immediately after the prototype of your function. For every function, without exception.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love—or to be loved by—is difficult.

The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object , not the problem of a faculty . People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.

Even if things are common, there's more than one side to them. There's more than one side to one-sided things. One-sided people too.