Quotes About Complexity

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

It's very hard to cheaply build anything significant in a multi-platform, mobile world.

People believe the best way to learn from the data is to have a hypothesis and then go check it, but the data is so complex that someone who is working with a data set will not know the most significant things to ask. That's a huge problem.

I think with 'Silk' there's something there for everyone: it's a legal drama, but it's human as well - you get to dip into the lives of the barristers and clerks.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.

I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.

There is no silver bullet for poverty alleviation.

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

I am not as simple as I look.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve.

If it's simple simple, it's boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make you think and rethink.