Quotes About Complexity

There are many reasons why wrapping our arms around uncertainty and giving it a big hug will help us become better decision-makers. Here are two of them. First, "I'm not sure" is simply a more accurate representation of the world. Second, and related, when we accept that we can't be sure, we are less likely to fall into the trap of black-and-white thinking.

Sentiment d'être composée de multiples morceaux de femmes; il y a en moi de la Dalida, Yourcenar, Beauvoir, Colette, etc... même Sand.

Gone with the Wind" are just as decisive as the Oedipus complex

Cela je le savais au début, puis je me suis ingéniée à l'oublier. Sera-ce plus dur d'effacer une année que dix-huit ans avec mon mari ? La haine facilitait les choses, ici l'amour les complique.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

In an increasingly complex world, with courseloads becoming heavier and heavier, shouldn't we be opting for more accountability when it comes to our professors, not less?

Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes naturally to me. A lot of my music is like that.

Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

Politics is profoundly nonlinear.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.

Top Boy' isn't the type of programme that is trying to be righteous and have a happy ending, it is just real.

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

Progressive rock was happening.

The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.

Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.