Quotes About Complexity

I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing and why.

There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love.

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances.

Getting to know a difficult piece of music is comparable with getting to know a person who does not immediately reveal him- or herself, or who may appear to erect barriers against intimacy.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

D'autre part la langue écrite, la langue littéraire, surchargée, pompeuse, pâteuse, prétentieuse, gorgée de digressions ineptes, absconse, évasive, allusive, ne réussissait qu'à lui transmettre un vilain bruit et de vilaines évidences très mal formulées (Black Village p. 123)

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

Dado que el mundo es de una complejidad pavorosa, una buena historia de ficción lo simplifica y lo hace inteligible. La ficción ayuda a largo plazo a poner las cosas en su sitio. Al final, lo que sabemos de las sociedades lo sabemos a través de ella a lo largo del tiempo.

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light.

Sa come è la vita, è come una tessitura, tutti i fili si intrecciano, è questo che un giorno vorrei capire, vedere tutto il disegno.

History is never tidy.

A woman is usually five feet above the ground and ten feet underground, so her true intention behind an action is not often correctly decoded or found by men.

Life is simple , only it has been made tough for others by some people for their vested-interest.

The opinion of the people on any problem is like an onion because it brings often tears in eyes upon peeling it off but no solution.

Citizen Kane is to cinema what James Joyce's Ulysses is to literature.

Take my story as a cautionary tale, a narrative argument against ready-made solutions. It tells you that applying formulas is not good enough - not, that is, when you're faced with really hard problems!

Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time