Quotes About Complexity

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Only one of the many life support systems on which we depend - soils, aquifers, rainfall, ice, the pattern of winds and currents, pollinators, biological abundance and diversity - need fail for everything to slide.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet. Iron & Wine seemed to fit with that duality and I thought it would be more interesting to call the project that rather than use Sam Beam.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.

I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.

You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.

When 'Hot Ones' is done right, every wing is like a different part of that person's personality.

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

Just taking the front wing and saying that will make racing better, it's quite a naive and ultimately expensive approach.

The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Eyebrows are the most difficult beauty feature to master - we all have different bone structure, brow texture, and coloring.