Quotes About Complexity

They are not demons, not devils... Worse than that. They are people.

We know little about love. Love is like a pear. A pear is sweet and has a distinct shape. Try to define the shape of a pear. Dandelion

I lose a great deal of my charm when one gets to know me better.

Geralt had discovered, many times, that all mechanisms are unreliable. They only worked when they ought not to work, and vice versa.

We know little about love. Love is like a pear. A pear is sweet and has a distinct shape. Try to define the shape of a pear. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry

No sabemos mucho del amor. Con el amor es como con la pera. La pera es dulce y tiene forma. Intentad definir la forma de la pera." Jaskier en "Tiempo de Odio".

Evolution didn't give you a sufficiently folded brain to enable you to understand.

Such double loyalty"—Geralt looked her in the eyes for the first time that evening—"is devilishly difficult to manage. Rarely does it succeed, Triss.

Quiet, quiet, children. They are not demons, not devils… Worse than that. They are people.

They are not demons, not devils . . . Worse than that. They are people.

We know little about love. Love is like a pear. A pear is sweet and has a distinct shape. Try to define the shape of a pear. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry CHAPTER THREE Geralt had reason to suspect–and had long suspected–that sorcerers' banquets differed from the feasts of ordinary mortals.

T?skni si? do rzeczy g?upich. Nawet wtedy gdy jest si? m?drym, wtedy chyba najbardziej…

Coupled code is hard to change: alterations in one place can have secondary effects elsewhere in the code, and often in hard-to-find places that only come to light a month later in production.

I was a thirty-seven-year-old man with a lot on his mind but not too much in it.

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

If you've never been married or are under thirty, even if you've lived with someone, you underestimate the complexity of your sexuality and the long-term ramifications of your sexual conduct.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind.

And admit the truth: that when you really look closely? People are so strange and so complicated that they're actually... beautiful. Possibly even me

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

When I'd first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior." -flesh and the mirror

Necessary connections are fabulous beasts.

Ramón's wife's brother's cousin's sister

It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theoretical reasoning is often irreducibly complex. A given argument has several well-matched, interacting reasons, and the removal of any one of them makes the argument break down.