Quotes About Complexity

Human knowledge is not a mere collection, but a structure; it is a single body of interrelated cognitions.

Fundamental philosophic ideas are almost always profoundly controversial. They are not bromides; they are not self-evident, unless it's like "A is A." They involve tremendous abstraction and tremendous complexity. And therefore, if you find that you can zip them off in one or two sentences that absolutely no one could ever question, the chances are very strong that you did something wrong, that you missed out on what this idea actually says.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

La semplicità è la sofisticazione finale.

A simplicidade é o último grau de sofisticação

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: Are you a man or a woman?

Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We're all shitty little snowflakes, dancing in the universe.

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

explanations take such a dreadful time

When you're older," said the Professor, "you'll know that you can't put Mountains together again so easily!

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency.

It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.

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I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

Everything is randomly connected.

You don't know me, dude, he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.

I mean that she was complicated. Everybody is," Ling said quietly. "Don't erase her like that. She deserves better.

Simplifying people was a way of not having to think too much about them, to make them fit into your own story. People were inconvenient, though. Behind the idea of a person you constructed to suit yourself, the people you loved had their own stories- whole worlds going on inside- and you ignored them at your peril.