Quotes About Complexity

All the women in me are tired.

Ce n'est qu'avec la nuance qu'on peut avancer. Je tiens la nuance pour la forme la plus persuasive qui soit, et parfois la plus subversive. Ne pas mettre tout dans le même panier est devenu une rareté qui confine, malheureusement peut-être, à l'originalité.

How lucky Drew was to have this mother of hers, this constant, reliable, if at times irritating presence in her life--this mother, like so many other mothers, beloved and blamed. Lucky she was to have experience, through her mother, the twisted intricaciesof deep, and deeply complex, love.

A fifth and more cynical factor is a selective appeal to ancient evidence that highlights features in line with a modern ideological concern at the expense of being fair about the complexity of the ancient evidence.

That was the thing about restorative justice. It allowed you to hold two things in your head at the same time--that butt-slapping was funny, and also that it wasn't. That asking permission to touch somebody was funny, but that you really didn't want to be touched by somebody who didn't ask. That the girls wanted Jeff to dial back the ass-smacking thing, but that they still liked joking around with him. That the whole thing wasn't a big deal, and that it kind of was (239).

Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

La vérité est comme un joyau taillé, monsieur Smith. Elle a des millions de facettes. Si je t'en montre une, tu seras satisfait, mais n'oublie pas qu'il en existe bien d'autres. —

wars are like love affairs—easy to start, hard to end, and outrageously expensive.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

And then things happened quickly. Too quickly, on so many wildly differing scales, for any single observer ever to fully comprehend them. And not necessarily in the entirely correct order, besides. . . In

They say no one should see how sausage or laws get made,

Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve in order to understand itself. The complex organization of the brain evolved as a consequence of our sensorial and muscled engagement with the landscapes that surround us.

The hardest math ever is Life, each one of us has a different question.

Pri?am sve ovo samo zato što verujem da se jednostavne stvari (smrt) mogu poništiti složenim strukturama (pripovedanje), iako je odavno trebalo da je jednostavnost zamršenija od svake složenosti.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

[Psychiatric] drugs have so many side effects because using them to treat a complex psychiatric disorder is a bit like trying to change your engine oil by opening a can and pouring it all over the engine block. Some of it will dribble into the right place, but a lot of it will do more harm than good.

The wise say many things, enough to confuse the rest of us

when she contemplated the world situation she was aware that her mind would expand and become vast in three dimensions, and she could think years ahead, contemplating hundreds of moves as though she were observing a gigantic, global chessboard. When she planned, she planned sometimes decades in advance.

even the finest examples of men and women are capable of horrific acts under the right circumstances,

The real world, I'm afraid, is a lot more complex and dangerous, and sometimes it takes the ugly parts of life to keep the beautiful parts alive.

there is no way to make all of the world better for all of the people.

I told you. Government." ?"But what part of it—CIA, military, who?" ?"Government within government within government. Like Matrioshka." ?"What's that?" ?"Dolls within dolls." ?"You mean Russian dolls?" ?"I mean, Matrioshka," the old woman snapped.