Quotes About Complexity

As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that.

How many shows on TV do you see young black people, both women and men, really embody a full-fledged human being, flaws and all?

I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Women are so complicated, it's unbelievable.

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.

In terms of the themes, I love gray areas. The show is really about what makes someone truly good or what makes someone truly bad, and are we either of those things? 'Loki' is in that gray area.

Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics.

I want to study theoretical physics because it is one of the hardest things there is.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

There is no complete theory of anything.

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school.