Quotes About Complexity

He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.

But wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy

Evan Stark pointed out that there is no incompatibility between hate and love: the two coexist in relationships all the time. So do violence and love, as strange and awful as it may seem.

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

And how was she deserved all this hate? She has done nothing except to be loved by someone who was not grown up...if you live with a man you come to know the other woman he has loved. I know Lady Marchmain very well. She is a good and simple woman who has been loved in the wrong way.

The five attributes of innovations are (1) relative advantage, (2) compatibility, (3) complexity, (4) trialability, and (5) observability.

Complexity is the degree to which an innovation is perceived as difficult to understand and use.

Innovations that are perceived by individuals as having greater relative advantage, compatibility, trialability, observability, and less complexity will be adopted more rapidly than other innovations.

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget.

Amory smiled discreetly...'But beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit--the Rousseau, the Tolstoi, the Samuel Butler, the Amory Blaine-

And in that instant her eyes were brimming and she was not aware that she was voicing an illusion. Yet Anthony knew that there were days when they hurt each other purposely--taking almost a delight in the thrust. Incessantly she puzzled him: one hour so intimate and charming, striving desperately toward an unguessed, transcendent union; the next, silent and cold, apparently unmoved by any consideration of their love or anything he could say

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.

Incessantly she puzzled him: one hour so intimate and charming, striving desperately toward an unguessed, transcendent union; the next, silent and cold, apparently unmoved by any consideration of their love or anything he could say.