Quotes About Complexity

This triple-decker reflects our evolutionary development from the earliest model (single-celled bacteria) to the latest (George Clooney). Each

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.

You're not allowed to chart love. The reason … is because we think of love as a binary thing: You're either in love, or you're not in love. You love, or you don't love. I think the reality is that love is a process

So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.

In any case, however many subatomic particles there may be, organisms are wholes, and reducing them to their parts by killing them and analysing their chemical constituents simply destroys what makes them organisms.

Mathematically, morphogenetic fields can be modified in terms of attractors within basins of attraction.

Sometimes the person you're closest to is the one you understand the least. Sometimes, when you're that close, everything just blurs.

Nothing is insignificant; nothing is without consequence in the intricate web of life.  

No life is more, or less, important or interesting than another—much of it, after all, is lived inside our heads.

The only problems that have simple solutions are simple problems. The only managers that have simple problems have simple minds. […] Complex problems do not have simple solutions.

The less we understand a phenomenon, the more variables we require to explain it.

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him 

I live a real life, man. It's complex. Some days are absolute diamonds and some days are dog shit, same as everybody else. Unfortunately, some days that are diamonds I've taken them and turned them into doing shit. But you live and you learn. I'm 42. I'll get wiser.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

La elección es creativa y, por lo tanto, impredecible. Al toparse con una elección predecible, ya no se trata propiamente de una elección.

her first husband was a 'genius with a misdirected mind'.

Women are not always what we seem to be. What our reputations would tell you. Nor do we only exist in reference to our fathers, husbands, and sons.

The death camps seem easier to comprehend if we put them all into the basket of one vast generalization, which the term "death camps" implies, but in the process we mythologize or trivialize them.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

While the world may be large, complex, and hard, and unfair; it is also knowable. It can be understood. Once understood, it can be directed, controlled, and improved.