Quotes About Complexity

From time to time, her dialogue will be rendered in ordinary English, which Louise does not speak. To do full justice to her speech would require a ladder of footnotes and glosses, a tic of apostrophes (aphaeresis, hyphaeresis, apocope), and a Louise-ese/English dictionary of phonetic spellings.

I love Germany so much that I am glad there are two of them.

Women are very complicated, even if you are a psychiatrist.

He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways of loving than there are ways of being happy, but it would take another book to explain them all.)

Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .

There was too much to feel strongly about, she was stretched too thin, so she could not quite feel anything about anything.

You're a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

To be young is to be powerless, but to have delusions of power. To believe that one can really change things, make the world better and simpler in good and simple ways. To grow old is to realize that nobody is ever good, nothing is ever simple. That truth is cruel at first, but finally comforting.

Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.

Why don't we give her a crumb or two of that?" "For the same reason that I do not try to pull a thread free from a cobweb and use it to darn my socks," growled Grandible. "Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .

He felt like a chess-master who, two moves from achieving checkmate, suddenly sees a live kitten dropped on to the middle of the board, scattering pieces.

Life isn't that simple. People aren't that simple. You can't cut them into slices like a cake, then throw away the bits you don't like.

Život su ljudi. U prostoru jednog ljudskog lica beskrajno je mnogo varijacija«

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

People who are not easy to like, they have feelings just like nice people do.

Romantic Egoist Besides, love is just one among many mysteries that logic alone cannot explain.

Sometimes it seems ... as though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

SOCIAL ANIMAL ALWAYS COME ACROSS SEVERAL COMPLICATIONS

At least, I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Each of us is full of sh*t in our own special way. We are all sh*tty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.