Quotes About Complexity

I was reminded of the Winchester Mystery House, which I'd seen as a child on a trip with my parents. From above, there was the same sort of random conglomeration—peaked roofs connected to flat roofs, shakes and shingles, tarpaper and skylights—and I realized that Frank had constructed his house from the town, connecting the buildings until they made one enormous edifice. "Jesus," I breathed.

La vostra Italy non e' la nostra Italia. Italy e' una droga leggera, spacciata in forme previdibili: colline al tramonto, olivi e limoni, vino bianco e ragazzi dai capelli neri. L'Italia, invece, e' un labirinto.

History has taught us the futility of the conspiracy theory. Complexity gives rise to error, and in error we grow our prejudice.

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

Dans le brasier initial l'hydrogène se transforme en hélium, l'atome à peine plus complexe que lui. Mais déjà, de cette transformation on peut déduire la première grande règle du jeu de notre univers : TOUJOURS PLUS COMPLEXE.

Les fourmis présentent cette formidable opportunité de nous permettre de voir une société fonctionner, une société composée de plusieurs millions d'individus. C'est comme observer un monde. Il n'existe pas à ma connaissance de ville de plusieurs millions de lapins ou de souris...

So Bibi had been born a man and was now a woman, Megan had wondered, daren't ask, she might bite her head off And Megan was a woman who wondered if she should have been born a man, who was attracted to a woman who'd once been a man, who was now saying gender was full of misguided expectations anyway, even though she had herself transitioned from male to female This was such head fuckery

I tell Mum she married a patriarch Look at it this way, Amma, she says, your father was born male in Ghana in the 1920s whereas you were born female in London in the 1960s And your point is? You really can't expect him to 'get you', as you put it I let her know she's an apologist for the patriarchy and complicit in a system that oppresses all women She says human beings are complex I tell her not patronize me

I tell Mum she married a patriarch look at it this way, Amma, she says, your father was born male in Ghana in the 1920s whereas you were born female in London in the 1960s and your point is? you really can't expect him to 'get you', as you put it I let her know she's an apologist for the patriarchy and complicit in a system that oppresses all women she says human beings are complex I tell her not to patronize me

Megan was part Ethiopian, part African-American, part Malawian, and part English which felt weird when you broke it down like that because essentially she was just a complete human being

it's easy to forget that England is made up of many Englands

I let her know she's an apologist for the patriarchy and complicit in a system that oppresses all women she says human beings are complex I tell her not to patronize me

Bernardo Carvalho

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God." —Sarah Miles

And let me make the radical statement that I don't believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet.

One of the more profound lessons that I've learnt in politics is that everything is related to everything else. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

Wie selten kann man sich einem Menschen ganz geben! Das habe ich recht oft im Leben erfahren, daß ich dem einen nur diese, dem anderen nur jene Seite meiner geistigen Persönlichkeit erschließen konnte; daß, so oft ich mit diesem oder jenem verkehrte, sozusagen nur ein gewisses Register sich aufzog, die ganze übrige Klaviatur aber stumm blieb.

Our love was sweet and tart like lemonade on a sun-scorched day or the sweat that runs down your lover's face. It was bittersweet, more bitter than sweet.

The mechanism of the heavens was clearer, the mechanism of their courts was still murky. [Scene fourteen. English version by Charles Laughton.]

Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there is none more dangerous than the attempt to integrate the whole of society in one vast, permanent action group.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you have tried to make it precise.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.