Quotes About Complexity

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

In the end, everything isn't always as black-and-white as the markings on a Dalmatian puppy. Even for an evil thing like Cruella De Vil.

I'll tell you what the problem is. You're a young guy, you join the Watch, and you're delighted with yourself. At last the whole world is divided up into black and white! Your dream for humanity has come true; now you can tell who's good and who's bad. So get this. That's not the way it is. Not at all.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Don't worry if you're having a hard time following this oversimplified explanation of physics' most challenging problem. For most of us, understanding special relativity is a little like true love: We should consider ourselves lucky if we can grasp hold of it for even one fleeting moment.

It's not so simple as "They are a good person, so I like them." First, you fall for them. Then even after you know their all bad sides, you still want to hug them. With all their sides included.

We always have to be careful that in exposing one truth we don't cover up another. Or

What woman could resist a handsome, wealthy, powerful, nice man who was also just a tiny bit broken inside? It meant that in spite of him seemingly having everything, there was something he still needed from me.

Nothing is quite right, or everything would be quite boring.

It was because this stark world LeBlanc was trying to create was a lie; there was spectrum of color between black and white, and many, many layers of choice between yes and no.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

Don't fall prey to the 'genius' syndrome and outsmart yourself by being too complicated

My skin is kind of sort of brownish Pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, But I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, But it's silver when it's wet. And all the colors I am inside Have not been invented yet.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.

Military and corporate structures are hierarchical, complex, and arcane. Both science and technology employ an esoteric language familiar mainly to the initiates, while military-speak is a language unto itself. Democracy, whose culture extols the common and shared, is alien to all of these practices and their modes of communication.

I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.

It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Don't lose your head over love. I learned a long time ago that those who love you do not understand you, and those who understand you, do not love you.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.