Quotes About Complexity

Complex systems are not really random in the same way that a coin toss is random, but in practice it's extremely difficult to tell the difference.

If the answer isn't clear to you, you're not alone—even mathematicians argue about what it means to assign a probability to a single event.

black swan event like the storming of the Bastille, in other words, the broader you have to draw the boundaries around what you consider to be the event itself.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.

The devil is in the detail.

I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

We're all human and life is complicated.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.