Quotes About Complexity

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Decisions with multiple objectives cannot be resolved by focusing on any one objective.

I learned to love the little things about him, because of all the big things I could not love. No one could. It would be wrong to.

To extract a child from a shallow grave seems at first, to the casual observer, a ludicrously simple matter.

In a world where millions of people make complex economic decisions, often what "feels right" makes for bad policy.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

to secure as much of the advantages of centralised power and intelligence, as can be had without turning into governmental channels too great a proportion of the general activity, is one of the most difficult and complicated questions in the art of government.

Literature, at its best, does not simplify, but it enlarges our minds and sensibilities to the point where we can better handle complexity--even if, as is often the case, we don't entirely agree with what we are reading

Literature is the human mind at the very height of its ability to express and interpret the world around us. Literature, at its best, does not simplify, but it enlarges our minds and sensibilities to the point where we can better handle complexity--even if, as is often the case, we don't entirely agree with what we are reading.

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The story is alternately hopeful and discouraging. Parish boundaries in the urban North served to foster communities of the sort admired by contemporary intellectuals at one historical moment, but proved unable to separate "community" from racial mythology at another. Parochial institutions strengthened individuals while occasionally becoming rallying points for bigotry. The extant literature on religion and race sidesteps this complexity.

He found Washington at once august and disgusting.

Recipes are made by breaking down a complex relationship of smell, touch, taste, and instinct born of intimate familiarity into a series of minimal commands containing none of those things.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

He couldn't think of a good place. At first he thought she hated all living beings equally. Lately he had come to believe he held a special place in her heart, just below rattlesnakes, pederasts, and spirochetes. Definitely a tough place to start from, but determination had always been Conal's strong point.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Se la gente non crede che la matematica è semplice, è solo perché non capisce quanto è complicata la vita.

In this sense, an object is of the highest degree of complexity if it can do very difficult and involved things.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language truly used by the central nervous system.

Any computing machine that is to solve a complex mathematical problem must be 'programmed' for this task. This means that the complex operation of solving that problem must be replaced by a combination of the basic operations of the machine.

Thus all sorts of sophisticated order-systems become possible, which keep successively modifying themselves and hence also the computational processes that are likewise under their control.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

recognizing the unworkability of a connection isn't a judgment on any individual. It's just an acceptance of the complexity of this world and how difficult it is to match needs and expectations. Generally,