Quotes About Complexity

I am a lot of things, not all of them noble.

Is this all you want?" Sam asked bitterly. "A good time?" "You're one to talk!" "I like a good time. But not all the time.

Está celoso! Kartik está celoso y Simon me ve...apetitosa. Me siento complacida. Y desconcertada. Pero sobretodo complacida.

Well, I mean, all the best people have a little beast in them.

All this time, he'd been thinking in two dimensions…forgetting that there was also a Z axis to be considered.

Brandolini's law, developed in the context of twenty-first social media, is equally applicable to 1920s Klan-speak: 'The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude greater than that needed to produce it.

It is no less astonishing how many subjects—historical, philological, biological, sociological, economic—people regard as politics

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all.

The human mind is complex. Telly can be both explosive and cunning. Impulsive and brilliant. One does not negate the other.

The Internet is a microcosm of society.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.