Quotes About Complexity

Cuando una niña consigue perturbar a un señor de mediana edad, todo se vuelve muy complicado.

No soy más que un conjunto de muchas personas diferentes, todas ellas muy sencillas.

J'ai toujours eu limpression quil mappréciait et recherchait mon amitié avec ce mélange de nostalgie et d'agressivité qui lui était propre.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger.

Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.

I am not the river I am the net.

Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.

The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.

Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple—black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way, they rip open a passage for chaos. The art of government as you call it, is the mastery of chaos.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/ human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.   —FROM THE TLEILAXU GODBUK

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said. "Nothing about religion is simple.

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Feints within feints within feints.

Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.

The implied methods would permit construction of entirely new computers reduced in size and basic complexity by a factor of at least a thousand.

You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life.

Jessica, have you ever stopped hating me?" the old woman asked. "I both love and hate you," Jessica said. "The hate—that's from pains I must never forget. The love—that's…." "Just the basic fact," the old woman said

Law—our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law.

Nothing about religion is simple," she warned.

Dad told me that you could follow any of the novel's layers as you read it, and then start the book all over again, focusing on an entirely different layer. At the end of the book, he intentionally left loose ends and said he did this to send the readers spinning out of the story with bits and pieces of it still clinging to them, so that they would want to go back and read it again. A neat trick, and he pulled it off perfectly.

Oricare ar fi gradul de exotism atins de civilizaÈ›ie, oricare ar fi dezvolt?rile existenÈ›ei È™i ale societ??ii sau complexitatea interfeÈ›ei om/maÈ™in?, exist? interludii de putere solitar?, în cursul c?rora evoluÈ›ia omenirii È™i viitorul ei depind de acÈ›iunile relativ simple ale anumitor indivizi.