Quotes About Complexity

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.

Anybody who's ever been in a large organization realizes that 'optimizing' is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it's full of people, who are complicated.

It's always hard to talk about music and describe a song.

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain, which was designed by evolution.

If you are designing cryptosystems, you've got to think about long-term applications. You've got to try to figure out how to build something that is secure against technology in the next century that you cannot even imagine.

The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

I still love my dad and appreciate what he's done for me, but I despise some of the things he has done to the family and certainly to my mum.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

It's totally different playing a lawyer and a detective.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss.

The complex develops out of the simple.

When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram.

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

I'm a woman of color, but I have so many different cultures inside of me.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I talk about being a 'what' to people. Like, being gay in mainstream society is a different kind of 'what' than being black. They don't always jive. It's confusing and leads to these really awkward personal stories that have just been in me for awhile.

Most people don't even know that I have another side to me. They only know me as an actor. But I keep doing different kinds of things.