Quotes About Complexity

but I didn't have the patience for its complexities.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

what looks like chaos is often self-organised in an intricate and invisible way.

It required an understanding of theology, and ethics, and ancient religions and philosophies. You had to have a working knowledge in a plethora of fields just to have the background to be able to deal with a book as rich and complex as the Bible.

When it comes to doubt, there is not one size that fits all. Some people struggle with it and some people don't. Some people scream their way into doubt through pain and suffering, while others seem to drift into doubt. It's that simple and that complex.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

La moral política es como una capa con tantos remiendos, que no se sabe ya cuál es el paño primitivo.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Love was love, and always demanded more than a lover was capable of giving.

No creo que nadie sea bueno o malo del todo. Somos una mezcla y actuamos de acuerdo a las circunstancias en que nos encontramos.

Conor Carrington,

Michelangelo's genius was in allowing the viewer to see a great deal—in order not to show what is best left secret, except to the knowledgeable few. In other words, he put in so many trees that we cannot see the forest.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much.

I found myself in the position of that child in a story who noticed a bit of string and - out of curiosity - pulled on it to discover that it was just the tip of a very long and increasingly thick string...and kept bringing out wonders beyond reckoning

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Why is geometry often described as ""cold" and ""dry?" One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline, or a tree. Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

For a complex natural shape, dimension is relative. It varies with the observer. The same object can have more than one dimension, depending on how you measure it and what you want to do with it. And dimension need not be a whole number; it can be fractional. Now an ancient concept, dimension, becomes thoroughly modern.

In economics, there can never be a "theory of everything." But I believe each attempt comes closer to a proper understanding of how markets behave.

In an ever-more complex world, Mandelbrot argues, scientists need both tools: image as well as number, the geometric view as well as the analytic. The two should work together. Visual geometry is like an experienced doctor's savvy in reading a patient's complexion, charts, and X-rays. Precise analysis is like the medical test results-the raw numbers of blood pressure and chemistry. "A good doctor looks at both, the pictures and the numbers. Science needs to work that way too," he says.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.