Quotes About Complexity

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

It's the strings vibrating at the same time but separately that makes a good marriage. It messy, it's complicated and it's quite wonderful.

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

Christopher Nolan's 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.

I love him in ways that I can't explain to other people. They don't understand… it's not their fault.