Quotes About Complexity

Of course bad code can be cleaned up. But it's very expensive.

It is not the language that makes programs appear simple. It is the programmer that make the language appear simple!

If Hegel could not be taught to ordinary intelligent people, then I for one would not find reason to read him at all.

An almost infinite diversity of structures compete against the environment.

Finch refused to discuss these ideas and didn't brook criticism from his colleagues, much less from a mere photographer. What must it be like, Guilford wondered, to have such a baroque architecture crammed inside one's skull? Such a strange cathedral, so well buttressed, so well defended?

People are of infinite complexity and you can spend a lifetime watching them without ever fully understanding them

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society

When you reveal the inner workings of your creation, you become just one mere mortal among others. What is understandable is not awe inspiring

People are more complex than you imagine. Your goal is to simply see their point of view better. As you go through this process, it becomes like a muscle that gets stronger the more you exercise it.

La mayoría somos de- masiado  obvios; tú sé difícil de entender.

Una mezcla de cualidades sugiere profundidad, lo que fascina tanto como confunde.

that we are far more mysterious, complex, and interesting than we had imagined.

Si tienes una cara dulce y un aire inocente, emite indicios de algo oscuro, e incluso vagamente cruel, en tu carácter.

Una superficie brillante puede tener encanto decorativo, pero lo que te hace voltear a ver un cuadro es la profundidad de campo, una ambigüedad inexpresable, una complejidad surreal.

The only solution is the following: We must learn how to quiet the anxiety we feel whenever we are confronted with anything that seems complex or chaotic. In our journey from apprenticeship to mastery we must patiently learn the various parts and skills that are required, never looking too far ahead. In moments of perceived crisis, we must develop the habit of maintaining our cool and never overreacting.

You will need a degree of humility in this process. You can never know exactly what people are thinking and can easily make mistakes, and so you must not rush to judgments but keep yourself open to learning more. People are more complex than you imagine. Your goal is to simply see their point of view better. As you go through this process, it becomes like a muscle that gets stronger the more you exercise it.

Everything in nature has a structure, a way that the parts relate to one another, which is generally fluid and not so easy to conceptualize.

In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them—those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can never focus enough to learn. The Apprenticeship Phase is more relevant and important than ever, and those who discount this notion will almost certainly be left behind.

It was like having a child forever at your heels - a persistent, intelligent, embarrassing, deceitful, dangerous child

She was my—? I never knew what to call her. To say she was my girlfriend was absurd; no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend. Partner wasn't right either, as we didn't live under the same roof. Lover? How could one keep a straight face? Mistress? Do me a favor. Fiancée? Certainly not. I suppose I ought to have realized it was ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

One could never be sure with Oliver. Ambition and godliness, self-interest and the higher cause, the base metal entwined with the gold.

All his depths were on the surface.

confess i am curiously drawn unmentionable to the americans doubt i could exist among them for long however psychic demands far too severe much violence much that repels i am attracted none the less their variousness their ingenuity their elan vital and that some thing essence quiddity i cannot penetrate or name

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.