Quotes About Complexity

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

Not everything is black and white. Much as we would like it to be.

All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn't share.

Fuck," she said, after a minute. "And I thought I liked to make my life complicated." She

Look. I know I've got baggage. I know that someone like me is probably not on your agenda, what with a baby and everything, but, you know, you've got a ton of baggage, too. You've got an ex-wife who you're obviously not over and a load of women you've slept with who still work for you— which frankly I think is a bit much. And you're a bit of a misogynist, which I can't say I like either.

Kentucky, huh? Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.

Fuck," she said, after a minute. "And I thought I liked to make my life complicated.

You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.

It is not the grown man- the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated offspring- you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.

With Will I sensed a vast internal hinterland, a world he wouldn't give me even a glimpse of.

See, now you're saying a nice thing and yet somehow it sounds like a bad thing.' 'Not bad,' he said, 'Just...different.

Seems to be catching." "What is?" asked Neku. "Wanting Kit dead." Neku shrugged. "He was fucking the wife of a gang boss and bikers used his bar to deal drugs, plus lots of uyoku felt Yoshi Tanaka should be married to someone Japanese. Then there's chippu he owed to the local police and unpaid bills from a Brazilian transvestite who mends his motorcycle. It could have been anyone.

Love is very different from like, ... Like has reasons and logic,... it makes sense.

The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.

But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?

Hayek, more than anyone else, illuminated the knowledge problem. Simply put: No one person can ever know enough. Planners who think they can process all of the data from disparate sources across vast expanses of geography and culture are, quite simply, educated fools.

The more you learn about the law, the more you realize there is no such thing as 'the law'.

The more you understand politics, the more you realize that you mustn't move.

The problem is not one of globalization, but one of generalization.

Everyone was bright and everyone had a point of view and everyone had a dimension that was a human quality no matter how steeped in chaos and mire that they were.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

Ockham's razor is only a methodological principle, not a necessary truth

Moral life, it can be said, is just too messy, and the situations we encounter differ from each other in subtle ways that no panoply of principles could ever manage to capture. Principles deal in samenesses, and there just aren't enough samenesses to go around. (page 2)