Quotes About Complexity

What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

we can love someone without understanding that person.

Love has a dangerous way of simplifying, for the lovers, things that cannot be simplified. Lovers can rarely see why they cannot be allowed to love, to be together. Why not, they naively wonder, since nothing else matters?

Running a marathon is a fitting picture of youth ministry. It's not an easy task within the church. If it were, we'd have more youth workers than ushers. Youth ministry is filled with long, tiring, often unrewarding, complex, unique, intense, humorous, joy-filled, and painful experiences. Many within the body of Christ have entered the youth ministry marathon, but many quit before long, having lost joy and satisfaction. They're wounded and weary.

It's easy to cry "bug" when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

There are prisons within prisons, and skins within skins. You can't always see who someone is just by looking in his eyes. Sometimes, others are there.

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind." —James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

The possibilities were as astonishing as the philosophical implications were daunting. "As

The creation of a human being from the union of a sperm and an egg. Think about it. A single fertilized egg cell gives rise to many trillions of cells. Impressive enough already. But how do these trillions of cells know how to organize themselves into a human body? Into a human brain? How do they know where to be?" Alyssa smiled stupidly.

Sometimes there are no good decisions, only impossible ones. Which doesn't—necessarily—make those forced to make these decisions evil.

Let's just say I hope the soul is inherent in the complexity of the infinitely grand workings of the human brain. And that no matter where the mind is housed, the soul will follow.

And as you've already seen," added the AI, "I can't even answer all of your questions about the how of it, as you put it.

even her intuition and knowledge of human nature were far from perfect. She understood it in the aggregate, but in any given situation, who knew?

Einstein had famously said, "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Really crazy stuff. I think they call it abstract math. What he created was usually beyond me, even conceptually.

spiderwebs that looked expansive and sturdy enough to snare a flying dog.

It was so easy to get mired down in the day-to-day struggles of life, and lose sight of the wonders of existence. How often did most people take just a few minutes to go outside at night and gaze skyward, to marvel at the tiny piece of the cosmos viewable from Earth? To contemplate the infinity of the universe and the complexity and brilliance of Nature in all its endless forms?

Recently proposed algorithms that involved hiding an encryption key at the intersection point of a multi-dimensional lattice should prove unbreakable, even for a quantum computer.

Precise knowledge of how all things are entangled with all others at the quantum level.

Hell, I was pretty sure I still loved her, even though I now hated her also.