Quotes About Complexity

Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

Software always remain softly for End users! But sometimes hardly to developers!

If you've never mistyped your password, it isn't complex enough.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we'd all fit inside some multiple-choice question.

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

The quantum is that embarrassing little piece of thread that always hangs from the sweater of space-time. Pull it and the whole thing unravels.

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

The truth isn't all things to all people all of the time.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.