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Quotes About Complexity

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.
~ Libba Bray
Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.
~ Masayoshi Son
The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.
~ Max Horkheimer
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
~ T. S. Eliot
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.
~ Howard Aiken
Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.
~ Anton Chekhov
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.
~ Jacques Rivette
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
~ Joseph Joubert
If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.
~ Sergio Aragones
I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.
~ Warren Buffett
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.
~ Annie Dillard
India lives in several centuries at the same time.
~ Arundhati Roy
There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
~ Baratunde Thurston
When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.
~ Bryant H. McGill
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
~ Dan Quayle
The energy problems that we face today were built up over a long period of time and are not going to be solved overnight.
~ Dana Perino
I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.
~ Delmore Schwartz
I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has.
~ Lupe Fiasco
The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.
~ Marshall McLuhan
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.
~ Martha Graham