Quotes About Complexity

It's strange, he thought, how beautiful human hands can be in spite of what they do.

When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.

Agile is simple—it just isn't easy.

The reality is that Bible translation is not an easy task.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.

You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will.

The most common leadership failure stems from trying to apply technical solutions to adaptive challenges.

especially with its ruling elites of colonial European administrators and settlers, early twentieth-century Africa had been as socially and culturally complex as sixteenth-century Europe.

It has façades of a hardware store, a hotel, a restaurant, a bar, and a bank. Real cars are parked in front.

We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

painful ambiguities.

That he loved her was his life's greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

Oh, I know, I know, she was a sweet girl, a simple country girl; everyone told me that, both then and since. But I could not forgive her animal dumbness - worse, her rank sensuality, easy as any cow's, and like her dumpling breasts, quite irresistable to men - while those of us whom God has made to think and feel, who are strung out like harps along the wires of our own nature, why, we are rarer than music and must content ourselves with smaller audiences.

A opinião geral da tia Toinette, de que se deve odiar o adultério, não o adúltero, era essencialmente a visão de Tolstói, e é essa a razão pela qual Anna Kariênina é um dos personagens literários mais instigantes e complexos já criados.

Our love is a hurting delicacy, an old killer whiskey, a curse, and too beautiful for words.

He had the same trouble as all intellectuals—he was ineffectual. He knew too many things, and they confused him.

The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.

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Dinosaurs lasted so much longer than we have, or probably will, yet their brains were so little. Meaning that stupidity is a good strategy for survival? Our level of intelligence could be a maladaptation, a wrong turn, an aberration.

Justice was its own art, shining light into the shadows, complex yet ultimately as simple as can be: bringing balance, making things right. Helping women know that their experience, no matter how horrific, was their strength. It showed them that they were their own superheroes.