Quotes About Complexity

Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

The Internet is going to be the Internet. You can't look into it too much.

I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools.

There is no avoiding the realities of the information age. Its effects manifest differently in different sectors, but the drivers of speed and interdependence will impact us all. Organizations that continue to use 20th-century tools in today's complex environment do so at their own peril.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

There's nothing really connecting the behavior of the Nile, metallurgy, and the behavior of prices except that I had the mathematical tools to explain them.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

Science is a highly technical and intellectual endeavor. Any theory or fact or discovery has an ocean of depth to it. You can always go deeper with science, and you can always ask a new and interesting question. That's what makes a topic nerdy: depth.