Quotes About Complexity

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!'

I don't want to be a propagandist or say that Pakistan is just great. There are problems, but it is a much more complex place than we are given to believe.

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working on fighting games at Paradox. Everything seems to balloon when more and more people get involved.

It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.

Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they're not just one thing, they're bigger than just their identity.

No person is just one particular emotion.

I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.