Quotes About Complexity

Anyone who isn't confused or conflicted on the topic of Israel probably isn't looking into it too deeply.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how close you live to your work and a grocery store affects your mobility.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.

I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and tortured characters.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

That's the Elektra I tried to portray: one that's always in the grey. She is a tortured soul.

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

They're people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes' lives.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

The intelligence community does not have complete 'eyes on' the totality of the Iranian nuclear program, nor can it guarantee that we have identified all of Iran's nuclear facilities and processes.

Anything can be taken out of context and anything you say or do is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are in your totality. There are small moments of your life that when taken into account with the rest of your life start to paint a picture.

My label, my genre, my everything is happy sad - I do a smiley face with eyes on both sides. So basically to me, it's totally okay to be happy and sad at the same time, it's totally okay just to be sad, it's totally okay to be happy.

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.