Quotes About Complexity

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.

You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise.

He had entered by then the broad, human path of inconsistencies.

I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.

La natura umana, temo, non è bellissima da cima a fondo.

Gli idealismi impoveriscono la vita. Il renderla bella significa toglierle il suo carattere complesso; significa rovinarla.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible which is also detestable

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

that a work of art is very seldom limited to one exclusive meaning and not necessarily tending to a definite conclusion. And this for the reason that the nearer it approaches art, the more it acquires a symbolic character.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.

A complex sentence consists of two or more simple sentences so combined that one depends on the other to complete its meaning; as; When he returns, I shall go on my vacation. Here the words, when he returns are dependent on the rest of the sentence for their meaning. A clause is a separate part of a complex sentence, as when he returns in the last example. A phrase consists of two or more words without a finite verb.

La globalización actual no funciona. Para muchos de los pobres de la Tierra no está funcionando. Para buena parte del medio ambiente no funciona. Para la estabilidad de la economía global no funciona

One of the reasons that most literary artists are contemptuous of Sigmund Freud—whose thought Vladimir Nabokov once characterized as no more than private parts covered up by Greek myths—is that his extreme determinism is felt to be immensely untrue to the rich complexity of life, with its twists and turns and manifold surprises.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. —JOSEPH CONRAD

There is wisdom in madness, and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everybody is capable of everything.

Orr was one of the homeliest freaks Yossarian had ever encountered, and one of the most attractive.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

the historian must be part hedgehog and part fox; that is, he must know "one big thing" and several "little things," must pursue a unifying vision while remaining sensitive to the peculiarities and the bedeviling varieties of his subject.

If you detect a needlessly complex style when you read, look for characters and actions so that you can unravel for yourself the complexity the writer needlessly inflicted on you.

An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings, as Singer noted, have contradictions.

Writing concurrent programs in Java keeps getting easier, but writing concurrent programs that are correct and fast is as difficult as it ever was.

It is too early to say whether modules will achieve widespread use outside of the JDK itself. In the meantime, it seems best to avoid them unless you have a compelling need.

Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.