Quotes About Complexity

There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.

I think that, for whatever reason, we've gotten to a place where, particularly in Hollywood, things have to be very pat. Like 'I'm a good guy. I'm a bad guy.'

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

Every Crohn's and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That's the craziest thing about it.

Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who have multiple, complex medical problems.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

If you look at how beautiful the eye can be, it has its own inside patterns and colors.

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not.

Payments is a hard business. It's a messy business, with not necessarily the largest of margins.

It's degrading or insulting to say somebody is a good person or has a soul. Each person has built this incredibly complex structure, and if you attribute it to a magical pearl in the middle of an oyster that makes you good, that's trivializing a person and keeps you from thinking of what's really happening.

I enjoy doing complicated or peculiar people.

Work place romances always seem to get very confused and peculiar, in my experience.

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.

When a driverless car looks out on the world, it's not able to distinguish the age of a pedestrian or the number of occupants in a car.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I meet people to like them, but some are onions to peel and others just blow up like a bomb!