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Quotes About Complexity

Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you
~ Ring Lardner
Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.
~ Rita Dove
the ratio of assumptions you have to make relative to knowledge that you possess is high—a different set of disciplines needs to be employed.
~ Rita Gunther McGrath
Tutti dicono che il cervello sia l'organo più complesso del corpo umano, da medico potrei anche acconsentire. Ma come donna vi assicuro che non vi è niente di più complesso del cuore, ancora oggi non si conoscono i suoi meccanismi. Nei ragionamenti del cervello c'è logica, nei ragionamenti del cuore ci sono le emozioni.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
~ Rmy de Gourmont
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
~ Roald Dahl
You are not what you think you are. Instead of the form staring back at you when you look in the mirror, what you should imagine is your body as a collection of multiple dynamic ecosystems made up of very tiny, and very biologically diverse, organisms.
~ Rob DeSalle
Girls are the White Album and they all have Revolution 9's. They have all that stuff you wish you could edit out. When you fall in love with a girl, she's the bloody White Album. That is what you whisper to yourself, when you don't understand her at all. You just keep telling yourself, she's the bloody Beatles White Album and there's only one of her.
~ Rob Sheffield
There's only the one, see. When you fall in love with a girl, she's the bloody White Album. That is what you whisper to yourself, when you don't understand her at all. You just keep telling yourself, she's the bloody Beatles White Album and there's only one of her.
~ Rob Sheffield
We cannot create joy and fulfillment by subtracting complexity and stress from our lives
~ Robert A. Giacalone
It is perhaps this human tendency to see everything as "good" or "bad" that creates the greatest obstacle to accepting and utilizing our varied inner personalities.
~ Robert A. Johnson
Things mechanical are like the ladies,' continued Toby. 'You need to understand their ways. If you understand them, they'll do what you want from the start. If you don't, they've got you. And then God help you.
~ Robert Aickman
Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.
~ Robert Aickman
We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.
~ Robert Aickman
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
To him who looks on the world reductively, the world looks reductively back.
~ Robert B. Brandom
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN
~ Robert B. Cialdini
civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
As the stimuli saturating our lives continue to grow more intricate and variable, we will have to depend increasingly on our shortcuts to handle them all.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —Leonardo da Vinci
~ Robert B. Cialdini
Flowers, like cats, were too involved in their own intricate magnificence to minister to her self-love.
~ Robert Barnard
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.
~ Robert Benchley
The rage for 'identity' too often bespeaks a preference for simplicity rather than for complexity.
~ Robert Boyers
We don't always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.
~ Robert Boyers