Quotes About Complexity

Durante mi adolescencia, e incluso mucho después, esta situación familiar algo "turbia" me daba vergüenza: mentía sobre la edad de mi abuela y de mi madre para que no pudieran calcular que mi madre había nacido cuando la suya contaba con sólo diecisiete años;

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.

hem sevinç hem hüzün ifade eden belli belirsiz bir gülümseme yavaÅŸça yüzünü ayd?nlat?yordu.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Life is not quite so simple as the uninformed would like to believe.

Destiny and history are untidy.

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.

If I should try to put it into words, I mean how I did see her, it would be incomprehensible, for the simple reason that I find that I never did have a really clear idea of her at any time. I had an image of her, but that is not the same thing. An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. I had gathered, of course, a good deal from you, and later, after she went away, from others, but this only strengthened my confusion. The more we learn of a person, the less we know.

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

This quality of Jewish folk music [- it can appear to be happy when it's tragic-] is close to my idea of what music should be. The should always be two layers in music.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

It is amazing to realize what a marvelously complex series of events are constantly being woven behind our backs without our knowledge. It seems that everything has a meaning, if not in our lives, then in someone else's. It is also reassuring that a higher intelligence is keeping track of it all.

What's scary is the ability to understand multiple situations and not know which is right.

You idealize me. You don't even know me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't like me very much.

The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't.

Rhode Island likes things difficult, hard to find. The other unofficial state motto—"If you were supposed to know, you'd know.

That's all right, Neal thought. Every one of us is at least two people.

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

I am never needlessly obscure--I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

However much the writer might long to be, in his work, simple, honest, and straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, and straightforward, nothing much happens: he speaks the speakable, whereas what we are looking for is the as-yet unspeakable, the as-yet unspoken.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.