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Quotes About Complexity

El corazón tiene mas cuartos que hotel de putas
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
La palabra mestizaje significa mezclar las lágrimas con la sangre que corre. ¿Qué puede esperarse de semejante brebaje?.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
People have three lives: the public life, the private life and the secret life...
~ Gabriel Gracia Marquez
the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed
~ Garrett Hardin
It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.
~ Chuck Liddell
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.
~ Jesse L. Martin
There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.
~ Rick Perry
We're complex human beings. I can wear a leather dress and still have an 8-year-old and wipe up the eggs that are on her face.
~ Bozoma Saint John
One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
~ Ben Carson
What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.
~ Tristan Wilds
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
~ Salman Rushdie
'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer.
~ Ruth Bradley
Not everything has to be 'The Bridge' or 'The Wire'. Those shows are brilliant. But you have to invest your cerebellum in them.
~ Kris Marshall
We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.
~ Kelly Jones
My brain gets about 10 things going on at once and the wires don't connect. They all go, 'It's the drugs,' and it's not. I have been like this all my life.
~ Shaun Ryder
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
~ Walter Scott
Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.
~ Franchesca Ramsey
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me.
~ Alexandra Fuller
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
~ Leon Kass
When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
~ Carol Loomis
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.
~ Werner Heisenberg
My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.
~ CeeLo Green
It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.
~ David Milch