Quotes About Complexity

A civilizáció és bürokrácia egy másik kulcsfontosságú jellemz?je a tehetetlenség.

When faced with complex and inexplicable circumstances, a modern police officer will fall back onto one of two basic policing approaches. Option one; call for backup, arrest everyone in the vicinity and sort it out down the nick. Or option two; locate the nearest source of tea, sit everyone down and hope nobody's carrying a concealed weapon

As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

More and more rules were added until people tried to standardise spelling in the eighteenth century - by which time the language was already an unruly adolescent of 1300 years, throwing letters all over the place.

In every system of sufficient complexity there are periods of inexplicable, and usually meaningless, disruption.

I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

Poetry isn't hard, it's impossible.

I wish all difficult poems were profound. Honk if you wish all difficult poems were profound.

familiar with the "fine print" one received from financial institutions and health-insurance companies; the last thing one was supposed to do with those thousands of words was comprehend them.

Fleming is charming65 to be with, but would sell his own grandmother. I like him a lot.

Patra was trying to read Hegel's Science of Logic. This is something no one should ever feel obliged to do.

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

So what is to be done? There are no easy answers. We

each regulator was aware of only part of the problem, and some parts were not examined at all.

the reality is that globalization and international economic integration are too far advanced to be undone, except at very great cost.

but there's more to it than has been portrayed.

At the same time, we all knew the frustrations of struggling with extraordinarily complex problems under unrelenting public and political scrutiny.

I found the decision hard to understand,

Our situation seems to be getting trickier by the day,

the course of the economy is extremely hard to forecast.

In making the decisions we made in March 2008, we could not know all that would transpire.

With that law still in place, Citi likely could not have become as large and complex as it did.