Quotes About Complexity

Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.

If you think more privacy is always better, that is a case of loserthink. Every situation is different. Sometimes privacy is the problem that prevents the solution.

Whenever you have money, reputations, power, ego, and complexity in play, it is irrational to assume you are seeing objective science.

simplicity is not proof of truth. But since we can never understand true reality, if two models both explain the same facts, it is more rational to use the simpler one. It is a matter of convenience.

Whenever you have a lot of money in play, combined with the ability to hide misbehavior behind complexity, you should expect widespread fraud to happen.

Anyone who is confident in the face of great complexity is insane.

Fitness is a simple thing made absurdly complicated by market forces.

Dealing with experts is always tricky. Are they honest? Are they competent? How often are they right? My observation and best guess is that experts are right about 98 percent of the time on the easy stuff but only right 50 percent of the time on anything that is unusually complicated, mysterious, or even new. Years

One might say that ambiguity is the diet of literary studies.

Writers aren't exactly people, they are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

std::bind can express the same thing, but the construct is an example of job security through code obscurity:

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

We are never content with portraits of people we know. For that reason I have always felt sorry for portrait painters. We rarely ask the impossible of anyone, but of them we do. They are required to get everybody's relationship with the subject, everybody's affection or dislike, into the picture; and not merely represent their own view of a person but what everybody else's might be too.

Man despises What he never comprehends, And the Good and the Beautiful vilipends, Finding them often hard to measure: Will the dog, like man, snarl his displeasure?

Nas?l oluyor da insan? mesut eden bir ?ey ayn? zamanda felaketinin de kayna?? oluyor?

Sucht nur die Menschen zu verwirren, Sie zu befriedigen ist schwer.

Twas hard to dislike a man she so enjoyed in bed. Twas harder still to dislike one who kept showing her a more gentle side to his nature

Software is nothing like construction. Software is innovation. Innovation is difficult—if not impossible—to predict.

I sometimes think it would be beneficial if people thought of each other as "historical factorials." Thus, (Myrtle!) would be understood not just as present-day Myrtle but as the product of all her past experiences.

Jatkuvasti monimutkaistuvassa, järjettömiä yhteensattumia täynnä olevassa maailmassa ei monissa tilanteissa tarvita yhtään enempää tosiasioita – olemme nytkin jo hukkumassa niihin – vaan tunnettujen tosiasioiden parempaa ymmärtämistä...

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

Death is complicated." -Johann Kraus

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.