Quotes About Complexity

I would say the No. 1 problem with the Volcker Rule is it's too complicated, and people don't know how to interpret it.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.

Honey, don't ever try to figure out what's going on between two people.

Part of reparative reading is trying to think about how a story cannot do everything. Nothing can do everything. If you're reading every text, fiction, or criticism looking for it to tick a bunch of boxes — like if it represents X, Y, and Z appropriately to my definitions of appropriate, and if it's missing any of those things, it's not good — you're not really seeing the close focus that it has on something else.

It might seem that security should gradually improve over time as security problems are discovered and corrected, but unfortunately this does not seem to be the case. System software is growing ever more complicated, hackers are becoming better and better organized, and computers are connecting more and more intimately on the Internet. Security is an ongoing battle that can never really be won.

When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs I am compelled to conclude That man is the superior animal. When I consider the curious habits of man I confess, my friend, I am puzzled

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

La lectura, para los deconstructivos, es una tarea infinita y no se entiene que tengan necesidad de más de un libro. (Diccionario de las artes)

Monocausality reduces the study of history to meaningless simplicities (p.14).

There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good.

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation—the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings.

Technocrats are guys whom, when you ask them a question and when they have finished answering, you don't understand the question you asked any more! (Michel Colucci known as Coluche)

Se foutre la paix ne consiste donc pas du tout à se négliger, mais à accepter la complexité et la nuance du monde. C'est accepter les intempéries qu'un perfectionniste vit comme une attaque. C'est arrêter de s'autoévaluer et de s'autovérifier en permanence.

All of us have a hundred faces, attitudes, and facets of personality. I don't think anyone is all of one piece. We're more like the patchwork quilts I love, little bits and pieces, bright or dark, sewed together with the sometimes uneven stitches of experience.

If she'd been the type to want an uncomplicated, one-off bout of recreational sex, she had to acknowledge that she probably couldn't do any better.

But then, wasn't there always more to any woman than a mere man might think?

Curran was beautiful but perhaps a little mad.

involved." Decker paused. "I hate to say

You've got a good side?" "I do. I just don't use it too often. My bad side's so much more fun.

Hay cosas que no se pueden decir porque no hay palabras para decirlas; y si las hubiera, nadie entendería su significado.