Quotes About Complexity

What is my strength? Do I even have a strength? Maybe I have too many strengths, and that's why I can't think of just one.

I tried to argue that no choice was "right" for every person. Sexuality is richer than that: It is a banquet of choices and possibilities, none of which we can afford to dismiss.

Just because you're fighting evil doesn't mean you're good. And just because you're doing evil doesn't mean you're bad. You end up with the conclusion that there is no ultimate right or wrong. It's all shades of gray.

In spite of everything she did that she shouldn't have done, and everything she didn't do that she should have, something that felt like love was in her and she would take it out at times like this and show it to us and make us hunger for more. All of us, each in our own way.

Everything is octopusied.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power" Alfred Whitehead math text

There are so many colors in black and white.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all?

Defect-free software does not exist.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

Life is often more complex than the stories we like to tell about it.

Uncertainty and doubt are the domain of System 2.

In areas that involve vague criteria and complex judgments, intrarater reliability, as it is called, can be poor.

students can solve much more difficult problems when they are not tempted to accept a superficially plausible answer that comes readily to mind. The ease with which they are satisfied enough to stop thinking is rather troubling.

Why is it so difficult for us to think statistically? We easily think associatively, we think metaphorically, we think causally, but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do.

but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do.

Acquiring expertise in chess is harder and slower than learning to read because there are many more letters in the "alphabet" of chess and because the "words" consist of many letters. After thousands of hours of practice, however, chess masters are able to read a chess situation at a glance.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My

The reliance on flawed explanations is perhaps inevitable, if the alternative is to give up on understanding our world.