Quotes About Complexity

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

Human inventions march from the complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

you know that human inventions march from the complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

Una alegría más triste que la tristeza.

Bien sabéis que las invenciones humanas marchan de lo compuesto a lo simple, que es siempre la perfección.

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

However enlightened and however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself embrace all the details of the existence of a great nation.

nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

A proposition must be plain to be adopted by the understanding of a people. A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, even your best friend is a puzzle.

When you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together

Is there more to the story?" Vincent asked. "There's more to every story," his aunt told him.

To love someone so complicated you had to be committed to a single emotion—the way you loved him—no matter what. In that way, it was indeed simple.

How can we understand life? It's impossible.

In our world of shadows, there is no black and white but a thousand different strokes of light.