Quotes About Complexity

Death was easy. Life was complicated.

… mess is the material from which life and creativity are built …

I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.

It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful.

She's SINGLE doesnt really mean she's AVAILABLE.She's IN A RELATIONSHIP doesnt really mean she's NOT INTERESTED.She's ENGAGED doesnt really mean IT'S OVER.IT'S JUST COMPLICATED untill she's MARRIED!

Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements... Unlike in business transactions...

System consolidation, the process of transforming a short-term memory into a long-term one, can take years to complete. During that time, the memory is not stable.

There's no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.

Everything either this or that and oversimplified. But life was much more complicated. Life was much more than this or that, black or white. Life was grayish. "And

The need to adapt is nothing new; after all, Benjamin Franklin said, "When you are finished changing, you are finished." What is new is how often we need to change, the pace at which we need to move, and the complexity and volatility of the context in which we are operating.

The central idea is that you can represent reality using a mathematical function that the algorithm doesn't know in advance but can guess after having seen some data. You can express reality and all its challenging complexity in terms of unknown mathematical functions that machine learning algorithms find and make advantageous. This concept is the core idea for all kinds of machine learning algorithms.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Education is helping people understand something they don't already understand. Or, more accurately, education is helping people (young or old) learn how to get an understanding that they didn't already have. Education is cultivating the life of the mind so that it knows how to grow in true understanding. That impulse was unleashed by God's inspiring a book with complex demanding paragraphs in it.

If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology.

If there is a pattern to this baffling complexity, it may be best described as a never-ending Buddhist cycle of reincarnation. Both sides experience rapturous enchantment begetting hope, followed by disappointment, repulsion, and disgust, only to return to fascination once again.

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O jazz moderno e a música clássica moderna, por vezes, fazem questão em usar cinco, sete, onze, etc. pulsações por compasso (muitas vezes apenas para terem um ar inteligente e invulgar) mas são poucos os êxitos realmente populares.

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

Paradoxically, therefore, as economics becomes more truly scientific, it will become less of a science. Acknowledging these limitations will free it to serve us once more.

Truth is simple. It's just the truth. But think about when someone lies. Think about all the lies they need to tell in order to keep the original lie going. It's a tangled web, and it makes getting at the truth very difficult - which is exactly what the liar wants."

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.