Quotes About Complexity

So we're damned if we do and damned if we don't." She shrugged. "That pretty much sums up quantum physics.

Anxiety. Dissociation. The words came easily. We attach them to processes, they migrate to the people themselves, and we think: Now I understand. But we don't, and the words themselves interdict further attempts to do so. Maryanne

We have the technical sophistication of Tinker Toy's protecting the IoT microcosms of America's health sector organizations.

Dwight Swain, the great writing teacher, once said that the secret of excitement is to go deeper into your characters. Create more backstory, more secrets, more complexity, and you'll get excited again.

No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

almost exquisite, the slight madness

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is still born!

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Boys are beyond the range of anyone's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

To know [John Quincy Adams] is not to love him. It is, however, to admire him greatly.

to make it seem something more, in short, than my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good

And I know I said earlier that he was perfect, but he wasn't perfect, far from it; he could be silly and vain and remote and often cruel and still we loved him, in spite of, because.

Las cosas nunca son lo que parecen..., todo bueno o todo malo. Sería mucho más fácil si lo fueran.

At her tone, at once intimate and formal, a terrible sadness came over me, and when we looked at each other it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment, clear as glass, a complexity of stillness that was rainy afternoons in spring, a dark chair in the hallway, the light-as-air touch of her hand on the back of my head. "I'm

Manche Dinge sind so schrecklich, dass man sie nicht sogleich begreifen kann.

Ma dopotutto non è sempre l'elemento fuori posto, quello che non funziona alla perfezione, che stranamente finiamo per amare di più?

it wasn't until I had helped to kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be

No person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.

You don't need a point. The point is maybe that the point is too big to see or work round to on our own