Quotes About Complexity

Este primer ejemplo/exégesis es el más extenso y en muchos sentidos es el más complicado. Establece el ejemplo de la lectura de «la Ley y los profetas» que se está enseñando mediante seis ilustraciones.

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that its really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

They can trigger me. But they'll never figure me out.

they can trigger me, bu they'll never figure me out

You remind me people are more than the sum of the metadata one can dig up

He was white in bold seas, ans black in continents...

When asked what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common Ø› I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence

Era estúpido concebir la vida en términos de blanco o negro: todos éramos víctimas en un momento y verdugos en otro.

Hay un repudio generalizado a la gente que lleva una doble vida. Pero si la doble vida significa disfrutar el doble, tener simultáneamente dos ángulos para observar la existencia, ¿en nombre de qué se atreven a condenarla?

A la larga, la realidad resulta inextinguible, inalcanzable. Se puede saber más y más sobre ella, pero nunca todo.

Y si escribir es, en el libro, hacerse legible para todos, e indescifrable para sí mismo?

No se parece nada a aquel poeta inglés del que Chesterton decía que era oscuro porque tenía siempre tan claro lo que iba a decir que no veía razones para explicarlo.

Cuando leo algo que entiendo perfectamente, lo abandono desilusionado. No me gustan los relatos con historias comprensibles. Porque entender puede ser una condena. Y no entender, la puerta que se abre.

Perhaps it is that I am old, but I find it extremely difficult to identify men with their ideas. I can dislike, even hate an idea, but the man who has it seems to be still a man.

The more he learned, the less he knew, and so he came to understand a fundamental truth of wine: As much as we learn about it, as much as we know, it is at its heart a mystery.

I like presenting ambiguous situations. It seems to me a great part of our inner and outer lives are ambiguous, if we're honest about it. Maybe I'm a realist, in that respect.

Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout.

Hierarchies are critical in enabling networks to reach larger sizes before diseconomies of scale set in. This is why so many networks in the natural and computer worlds are structured as networks within networks.

Intuitively, many people imagine that humankind's upward climb in economic sophistication was a slow, steady journey, a linear progression from stone tools to DVD players. The actual story, pieced together by archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and economists, is not at all like that. It is far more dramatic.

Software design is a constant battle with complexity. We must make distinctions so that special handling is applied only where necessary.

A model is a simplification. It is an interpretation of reality that abstracts the aspects relevant to solving the problem at hand and ignores extraneous detail.