Quotes About Complexity

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

I think 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is a good example of a film where you have to juggle a whole lot of information to follow that story, and even if you haven't read the book, it seems to go pretty well. And that is a film where the characters didn't meet until 74 minutes into the film, not on page 17.

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.

Our current tax system is broken.

The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.

Highway' teaches one basic lesson, One God creating so many human beings, but all different in complexities, layers and charactersiticis.

Fucking family. Feeble and forlorn and floundering and foolish and frustrating and functional and sad, sad. Fucking family. Fiend or foe.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. Rick Moody

Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.