Quotes About Complexity

I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

Movies require so many moving pieces to align that it really is a miracle that anything is made!

Rather than recognising the challenges of a fast-changing society require sometimes complex responses, that we live in a world of trade-offs, that easy answers are usually false answers, we have seen the rise of the simplifiers.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

We lived by very complex import and export policies, a very complex industrial licensing regime. Very few people could get licences, which were required right from manufacturing a pin to manufacturing a car, and generally went to people who found favour with the government.

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

I'm part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I'm shy; I'm prude.

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

Freddie was the glue that kept us together. He was a very complex man: very shy but also with a forceful side to him.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

Exploring the dark side of my characters' personality is my forte.

There's a dark side to everything.