Quotes About Complexity

Tig was a unique element with all valences open.

Curiosity is the best antidote to prejudice... Learn to see all humankind in its maddening, glorious complexity.

You look like a man who's acquired some wisdom over the years. Can you tell me, why are women so difficult? I mean, I love them, but why?" The old guy shrugged. "Because they're people. It's not women who are difficult. It's people.

because how could something so awful also contain something so impossibly good?

Everywhere were metastasizing telephone lines, riots of electric wires, laundry hanging from prefabricated apartment windows like tears from idiot eyes.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

the possibilities in all this are so extensive that to gather it all under one name, Homo sapiens, borders on absurdity.

CHOOSING WELL IS DIFFICULT, AND MOST DECISIONS HAVE SEVERAL different dimensions.

But there are some rare terms that simply don't have satisfactory, simple words that adequately express the same thing, and the word hypostasis (plural: hypostases) is one of them.

Arguably it is also the most thoroughly misunderstood, especially by the lay reading public.

When you thought about it, it was sort of a blue-eyed wonder that women could love the best of them, let alone the rest of them.

The more you find, the wronger it gets.

That's all I can tell you. once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

The world has changed dramatically since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was first published. Life is more complex, more stressful, more demanding. We have transitioned from the Industrial

Ah, it is hard to take pride in human history.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

The Prokaryote-Eukaryote Transition is Rare

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly's wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

I learned a long time ago that people's actions ar nearly always less tidy than their minds. So I decided to be cautious. - Cotton Malone

women provide the greatest of pleasures, the worst of problems.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." —Charles Mingus, legendary jazz musician

And there is a crack in every story of "life is wonderful

Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.