Quotes About Complexity

If every time new data comes along we have to add complexity to our model in order to accommodate it, this should be a hint that the model is fundamentally a failure. It becomes a blob of 'silly putty' that is malleable enough to fit any new data. This sort of model is not a proper basis for a hypothesis; it is merely a blank check to claim we understand something when we really do not.

Han shook his head. Long ago he had told himself that females - mammalian, reptilian, or some biological class yet to be discovered - were beyond his meager powers of comprehension. Better leave them to mystery, he'd often advised himself.

companies often create complex prioritization algorithms that produce precise priorities based on very imprecise input data.

Every snowflake is unique, yet they are each perfect.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me.

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.