Quotes About Complexity

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

And his fondness of people matched his low opinion of them.

Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

The essence of beauty is in variety and surprise, in richness, ambiguity, and intricacy of detail.

A thin present issues from a thin, sketchy, rudimentary relation with the future--one that has not much structure to it.

You really think it's that simple?" I said. "That you can just write a check for two hundred and forty billion dollars and fix all the world's problems?

My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.

Jesus," Aech muttered, shaking her head. "If you're right…this is some extremely twisted shit we've gotten ourselves mixed up in, fam.

Alle Frauen sind im Grunde ihres Herzens Huren, erklärte er immer und immer wieder, wobei er seine traurigen, großen Augen rieb.

Un ser humano es más que la suma de átomos, miembros, órganos y humores de que consta; una familia es más que el esposo, la esposa y el hijo. Una amistad es más que dos hombres; y un pueblo es más que aquello que puede expresarse por el resultado de un censo de población o por una suma de votos políticos

And it is this randomness of variation that is responsible for the enormous, often quite bizarre diversity of the living world.

La faccia umana è la superficie di un pianeta

vague, very vague.

The reason for this was not that the subject was simple enough to be explained without mathematics, but rather that it was much too involved to be fully accessible to mathematics.

The second may well be beyond human understanding.

THE STRIKING CONTRAST In biology we are faced with an entirely different situation.

I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something. Everything is bizarre, and everything has value. Or if not value, at least merits investigation.

It seemed too complicated, as if each one of us were really two people, one who was loved and the official one who, I assumed, was not.    

Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day — the erotic mind is not very politically correct.

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

DiÄŸer serserilerden pek fark? yoktu Kobi'nin. Ä°nsan?n asl?nda çirkin mi yoksa aptal m? olduÄŸuna karar veremediÄŸi tiplerden

You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.

This is perhaps the greatest lesson that interdependence has to offer us about right livelihood (and right living in general) in the twenty-first century: no person, and no profession, comes out completely clean, ever. On the other hand, no one is inherently defiled.

By polygons I mean,' said Judy, 'that a question is not a figure with one side only. It is a cube, a heptagon, an octagon. You and I see just one side of a thing and jump to the doing of it. We must learn to walk around the five or the seven or the eight sides it may have and study each before we move an inch.