Quotes About Complexity

These women are always the same; they will, and they will not; their Yes so often merely a cowardly sort of a No; and their No, a coy sort of a Yes. One should be a diplomatist to understand them.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

We don't have to have easy moralizing reactions to characters in literature.

Fictional characters come trailing many cognitive puzzles.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

The test of a first-class mind is the ability to hold two opposing views simultaneously and still be able to operate. F. Scott Fitzgerald

there are two kinds of people: people who simplify things and people who complicate them.

Bill had always been a placid pond of a friend with a few boulders of madness lurking beneath the surface, but unlike me he knew how to keep the jagged edges out of sight.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

To a man like Roger Barlow, the whole world just seemed to be a complicated joke … everything was always up for grabs, capable of dispute; and religion, laws, principle, custom – these were nothing but sticks from the wayside to support our faltering steps.

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

People are more twisted than people think.

I was always of the opinion that progress made things easier. But it don't look that way to me. If anything, things seem more complicated. Is that the whole idea of progress - to complicate matters?

IBM veteran and computer science professor Frederick Brooks argued that adding manpower to complex software projects actually delayed progress.

One of the paradoxes of growth is that growth creates complexity and complexity is the silent killer of growth," said Bain director James Allen in the video.