Quotes About Complexity

Life is what a business is about, and life is what this work is about. Coming to grips with oneself, in the face of an incredibly complex world that can teach us if we're open to learn.

Nos decimos que, como todo este condicionamiento es lo habitual, para desarrollarnos, para ser más efectivos, para ser mejores personas, para ser más humanos, lo que debemos hacer es desarrollar hábitos mejores. Voilà! En lugar de intentar despertarnos, la solución es dormir mejor. Es un problema muy complejo. Puede pasar cualquier cosa. Por un lado, le he dicho que le voy a proporcionar una receta, un esquema, para lograr el éxito empresarial.

system is a set of things, actions, ideas, and information that interact with each other, and in so doing, alter other systems.

Standardized process guidelines belie the complexity of individual patient circumstances, and freeze care delivery processes rather than foster innovation. What is needed is competition on results, not standardized care. What is needed is competition on results, not just evidence-based medicine. There should be no presumption that good quality is more costly.

Las pasiones humanas son un misterio, y a los niños les pasa lo mismo que a los mayores. Los que se dejan llevar por ellas no pueden explicárselas, y los que no las han vivido no pueden comprenderlas.

Recession, advertising slow-downs, media spin-offs, procurement department investigations, client globalization initiatives, fee-based remuneration schemes and holding company ownership added significant complexity to ad agency operations by 1990. The simplicity of the Golden Age and the Creative Revolution was long gone, whether recognized or not.

Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums

Complexity of the task is another important factor as to how levels of arousal affect the quality of performance. Simple tasks use and tolerate more arousal than complex ones.

Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.

The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago.

How do you explain to an innocent citizen of the free world the importance of a credit default swap on a double-A tranche of a subprime-backed collateralized debt obligation?

Only someone who has Asperger's would read a subprime mortgage bond prospectus

There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.

There were a great many interesting questions in the world to which the only honest answer was, "It's impossible to know for sure." "What will the price of oil be in ten years?" was such a question. That didn't mean you gave up trying to find an answer; you just couched that answer in probabilistic terms.

The larger the number of people involved, the easier it was for them to delude themselves that what they were doing must be smart.

People think that complex is an advanced state of complicated," said Zoran. "It's not. A car key is simple. A car is complicated. A car in traffic is complex.

How do you explain to an innocent citizen of the free world the importance of a credit default swap on a double-A tranche of a subprime-backed collateralized debt obligation? He tried, but his English in-laws just looked at him strangely. They understood that someone else had just lost a great deal of money and Ben had just made a great deal of money, but never got much past that. I can't really talk to them about it, he says. They're English.

a thousand people don't build anything; if you need to build something really complicated really fast, you hire fifty of the smartest people you can find.

Lance was to computer programming what Joyce was to literature, possibly profound but also baffling.

The trouble was that clarity and simplicity were more important in computer language than in human language.

But the more we looked at what a CDO really was, the more we were like, Holy shit, that's just fucking crazy. That's fraud. Maybe you can't prove it in a court of law. But it's fraud." It

In the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative the conclusion we draw therefrom….

There are specific identifiers that are entirely recognizable during the bubble's inflation. One hallmark of mania is the rapid rise in the incidence and complexity of fraud….

The shareholders who financed the risk taking had no real understanding of what the risk takers were doing, and, as the risk taking grew ever more complex, their understanding diminished. All that was clear was that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.