Quotes About Complexity

Women liked Strike—she had come to realize that over the months they had worked together. She had not understood the appeal when she had started working for him. He was so very different from Matthew.

her beauty got in the way, like a thick cobweb through which it was difficult to see her clearly.

She and I aren't each other's favorite people.

The women most readily drawn to Strike were, in Polworth's view, neurotic, chaotic and occasionally dangerous, and their fondness for the bent-nosed ex-boxer indicated a subconscious desire for something rocklike to which they could attach themselves like limpets.

A masterpiece produced by an indecipherable cocktail of races, Kolovas-Jones's skin was

Why complicate your life when it did not need complicating, when you had a choice?

Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)

She was not a woman she was a world.

As F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

I used to do machine language programming in the lights on the front panel of a computer; now I do higher-dimensional type theory. It's a little bit crazy.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

Another misguided trick bosses use to demonstrate their brilliance – at least to themselves – is to develop incomprehensible strategies. Unfortunately, if your people can't understand your strategy, they can't figure out what to do. And, even if they can comprehend the twists and turns, the complexity can scatter their attention in so many directions that they won't do any single thing well.

variance in people, knowledge, activities, and organizational structures is crucial to creativity and innovation.

In the realm of the phenomenal, "less is more" only when less is the sum total of more.

Developing leaders who can navigate complexity is now a strategic priority—and, if done well, a competitive advantage. Beyond developing competency and capability, we need to develop leaders with courage and compassion, consciousness and character.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Why was not important. That was not the way he approached his life. 'Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

She was more of a business partner to him than anything else. Some of her appreciated that. But rustling yet within her was another person who wanted to bathe and perfume herself...and be taken, carried away, and peeled back by a force she could sense, but never articulate, even dimly within her mind.

there's a creature inside of you that I'm not good enough to bring out, not strong enough to reach. I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. You frighten me, even though you're gentle with me. If I didn't fight to control myself with you, I feel like I might lose my center and never get back.

They were good friends, though they would never understand what lay inside of her, would not understand even if she told them.

L'analisi distrugge l'interezza. Ci sono cose, cose magiche, che devono restare intere. Se cominci a guardare le singole parti, svaniscono.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.