Quotes About Complexity

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!

Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.