Quotes About Complexity

The template that 'Infinity War' is following is a very different, complex template because you've never seen so many characters in one film. It obviously has to be a multi-perspective film.

Everyone's got this hidden infinity that you only get glimpses of. They're always more complex than your conception of them will allow.

Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients.

This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

We're not inherently anything but human.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.

People think that I am very innocent and elegant, but I am the complete opposite of that.

Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

However beautiful a woman may be, she gets cold feet, she gets angry, she fears, she has insecurity - she is a human being.

For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

What's so great with 'Game of Thrones' is that there are so many characters and they're so many locations and that it's just very inspiring.

The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

I'm a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even understand it themselves.

I'll say that technology will make revolutions start happening faster, but it'll make them harder to finish. Technology can't create leaders and cause institutions to appear.

The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.