Quotes About Complexity

The power, the complexity, the aggression - there's so many things that would attract anyone to Metallica. I think that they are the prime example of a metal band.

I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.

The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

When you have kids your priorities change. What you are looking for in a partner becomes more complex.

We're never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the first priority of feminism is.

Increasing cyber-physical system complexity brings security challenges as well as privacy challenges.

I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.

Life at the top may be privileged, but it is not simple.

No greater problem is presented to the human mind.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance.

I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic.

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

Blockchain should be used to address opportunities and problems that lack easier answers.

I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.

We are constantly nothing but a bunch of energy being processed. Into this whirlpool, the more complex the system, the more energy it requires to hold it together. Therefore, the more complex - the scientists call it 'coherent' - the more fluctuations are possible.

Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.