Quotes About Complexity

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

Life is easy greediness adds complexity

Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

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

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.