Quotes About Complexity

Women, who on grounds of modesty alone might be expected to prefer being killed or cured by one of their own sex, prove as incalculable in this as in most other things;

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Things used to be plain and simple; you did a thing and you knew how it would turn out. But not now. The world was changing.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

I love humanity but I hate people.

Primero temí que fuera muy difícil averiguar algo de estos tipos que andan en los servicios de inteligencia, y toda esa mano.

Es una cuestión de vigas y de columnas. Lo siento. Pero así es como pienso el mundo. Si intento quitar la viga principal se me derrumba el edificio. Y no quiero. Sobre todo porque no quiero lastimar a los que viven en él. A nadie. Este edificio que construí: ¿puede albergar una habitación secreta?

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Whatever we cannot understand easily we call God; this saves wear and tear on the brain tissues.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have striven above all for accuracy, since I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. But the desert is a vast world, an oceanic world, as deep in its way and complex and various as the sea. Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown.

What casual monsters we are. What calamities we are capable of.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple. - Edward De Bono

Het is natuurlijk om dingen te willen snappen, dat is een heel menselijke drang, maar soms valt er - op een bepaalde manier - niets te snappen.

People have always cared me a bit, you see - they're so complicated. I suppose that's why I prefer horses.

April is in my mistress' face,And July in her eyes hath place,Within her bosom is September,But in her heart a cold December.

As it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Coitados, pensavam que eu gostaria de ler histórias de pessoas sem contrastes, em que os bons são sempre bons e os maus sempre maus, e a bondade e a maldade se acham divididas por uma muralha da China bem definida, e ainda bem, para sabermos de que lado convém estar.