Quotes About Complexity

I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

We're all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.

The cell contains highly organized physical structures, called intracellular organelles.

My own impression is that we may be witnessing something far more complex, namely an awkward joining of two species, engineered by an intelligence we are unable to fathom, for a purpose that serves both of our goals with difficulties for each. I base this view on the evidence presented by the abductees themselves.

as if a mischievous intelligence were at work. Yet I have come to the view after five years of involvement in this field that this subtlety is intrinsic to it and must be embraced if we

We take life seriously and responsibly. As our lives become more complex, we generate more and more tension. This is the basis for most back pain.

Girls are the trickiest and most unpredictable creatures a fellow like me will ever talk to.

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

In geopolitics, as in biology, expiration dates are never visible.

Women," he muttered to himself. "They're nothing but trouble.

Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.

The First Law of Systems-Survival: A SYSTEM THAT IGNORES FEEDBACK HAS ALREADY BEGUN THE PROCESS OF TERMINAL INSTABILITY.