Quotes About Complexity

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.

Ser artista es más complicado de lo que parece —Dijo Úrsula. -Ser cualquiera es más complicado de lo que parece —Dijo Paul.

There is a darkness behind all dances of color.

This is why we have to stay awake, be vigilant: we need to believe that we, like the museum objects around us, bear time with equal complexity, that eventually we might discover who we have been, what purpose we serve and what use we might one day be.

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

People don't need to know all the details of how a complex mechanism actually works in order to use it, so they create a cognitive shorthand for explaining it. This explanation is powerful enough to cover their interactions with it but doesn't necessarily reflect its actual inner mechanics.

I really wanted to show that it wasn't all bad in my family. I tried so hard to think of happy times we all had together, times when we had fun, when we laughed. In the interests of balance, I even wanted to be able to describe some instances of kindness and tenderness involving us all. But I just couldn't. I

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

We're all a rum lot, bor . . . there i'nt much t'chewse atween us,' he replied.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: "When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.

Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.

Turning complex, diverse places into shallow, simple ones creates a more culturally vulnerable population, an unrooted mass whose only linking thread lies in the ideology that is fed to them from above.

The destruction of old Mecca goes hand in hand with the ban on non-Muslims entering the city, as well as the center of Medina. Both are attempts to cleanse the city of historical complexity. The road signs on the freeway into Mecca spell it out: "Muslims Only.

Everything depends on everything else, doesn't it? That's interconnectivity for you – it's a bitch.