Quotes About Complexity

what a many-sided thing is the telling of any tale.

And yet I loved her still, or would have loved her if I could.

Mainframe is dispersed among them all. Imagine millions of millions of tiny circuits like those in a card—billions of billions, actually. The warmth of each is less than the twinkle of a firefly; but there are so many that if they were packed together their own heat would destroy them. They would become a second sun. As things are it is always summer here, thanks to those circuits." "That's what you call the little wiggly gold lines in card?

If you have a machine with three or four parts, you can shake them up in a box and it's still pretty clear what's there. If you have a machine with 10,000 parts and you shake them up in a box, what you have is a box of junk.

Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.

The work of making, maintaining, and analyzing classification systems is richly textured. It is one of the central kinds of work of modernity including science and medicine. It is, we argue, central to social life

The two basic problems for any overarching classification scheme in it rapidly changing and complex field call be described as follows. First, any classificatory decision made now might by its nature block off valuable future developments.

Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund, es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht.

Die Unterschiede sind so groß nicht, wir alle sind Schurken und Engel, Dummköpfe und Genies, und zwar das alles in einem: Die vier Dinge finden Platz genug in dem nämlichen Körper, sie sind nicht so breit, als man sich einbildet. Schlafen, Verdauen, Kinder machen - das treiben alle; die übrigen Dinge sind nur Variationen aus verschiedenen Tonarten über das nämliche Thema.

To judge a thing that has substance and solid worth is quite easy, to comprehend it is much harder, and to blend judgement and comprehension in a definitive description is the hardest thing of all.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

People don't have their virtues and vices in sets: they have them anyhow: all mixed.

Hohe Bildung kann man dadurch beweisen, daß man die kompliziertesten Dinge auf einfache Art zu erläutern versteht.

Para todo problema complejo hay una solución simple y equivocada.

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of his appearance which must be completed by innumerable impressions under differing circumstances.

It's puzzling work, talking is.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.