Quotes About Complexity

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

The truth of the matter is, as an organizer, you're essentially being asked to do the impossible.

Hacía mucho tiempo que yo había dejado de entenderme con Nadja. Lo cierto es que quizás nunca nos hemos entendido, al menos acerca de la manera deafrontar las cosas sencillas de la existencia.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

Amamos a aquellas personas que destilan una extraña esencia, que es la que nos falta para tener un compuesto químico equilibrado.

Onun önünde öylesine kar???k duygular duyuyordum ki, kendim bile güç anl?yordum. Hem ondan nefret ediyor, hem de ona tap?yordum. Hem suçsuz, hem de suçlu buluyordum onu. Haz?rlad???m ?iddetli kavga, dostça ve içten bir konu?maya dönü?üyordu.

The color of truth is grey.

Non c'è niente di inspiegabile in quello che sentiamo o facciamo, davvero; è solo che a volte le spiegazioni ci causano imbarazzo, e troviamo più conveniente non ricercarle con troppa insistenza.

The brain is a trashcan, though perhaps the best of all possible trashcans.

Biology, list history, is not built with 'if's.

We tried to be all of the things ... we are not.

Life has many sides; sometimes we need a mirror to see them all" Andreas Simic

As a newcomer I felt that this was indeed a blessed place, capable of unabashedly advertising its flaws, fearing no ridicule and no criticism. That, in essence, is the opposite of provincialism. The great cities of the world are not provincial: They invite complexity, not propaganda.

Real life is so…messy.

Confronting this question takes us beyond a world where the line between good and evil is sharp and bright, into a gray confusion where navigation was soul-trying work.

The Douglass of the memoirs is a paragon. There is little trace in him of the man who sometimes must have been petty, impulsive and vain--not a piece of property to be utilized in one way or another but, as one putative friend complained, a "haughty" and "self-possessed' man with the low as well as exalted desires that constitute freedom. To pretend otherwise is to treat him once again as less than human.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

This is what graphics are all about: showing the details and the patterns all at once.

The universe is in fact the constantly reborn "child" of the lovemaking of the "Father" and "Mother," Shiva and Shakti, who at all moments dance in and out of, and merge with, each other's being with divine complexity, subtlety, passion, and ecstatic humor.

Globalization has forced us to confront an extraordinarily diverse world that is undergoing massive change at a pace unimaginable to our parents or grandparents.

corpus as with mens, and found the same difficulties with both: a lack

uncomputable numbers

this another example of Federation hypocrisy? These people reduced all political complexity to pious platitudes, while they constructed the greatest empire in the history of the Alpha Quadrant.