Quotes About Complexity

India, Nicholson would say, was 'like a rat-trap, easier to get into than out of

Many in the world picture a threat from what they see as a monolithic Muslim world, when in fact that world is sharply divided.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

said, "All life is…and cannot be judged good or bad.

Mark Twain said on one occasion, "It is not those parts of scripture that are hard to understand that most disturb me, but those parts that are so clear!

Afghanistan is more than the "graveyard of empires." It's the mother of vicious circles. —MAUREEN DOWD

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

The heart hoped that India would survive, but the head worried that it wouldn't. The place was too complicated, too confusing – a nation, one might say, that was unnatural. In truth, ever since the country

was already the most acute of Bombay's problems:

India' was merely a label of convenience, 'a name which we give to a great region including a multitude of different countries'.

Being simple is the most complicated thing nowadays!"

Complexity is a product of unawareness and simplicity a result of awareness! Uncomplex yourself, Live Life!

Life is neither easy nor complex, it's just mysterious, rejoice every moment of life with awareness!

No man is a complete Sinner nor Saint, we're an influx of both intensities just varying in degrees!

Like Einstein, Kade thought. The problems we currently face can't be solved at the level of thinking that created them.

That would've been way too hard. We wanted to do neuroscience, not operating system development. So

There is far more to us than what we live.

It's so much easier to live in a world where everything is black and white. I've never done grey before, but I suspect it's one of those things that, tried once, you can never go back.

What then was I doing visiting George Washington's Mount Vernon many years ago with Hazel? Confused? Confessedly. How can any American who isn't white not be?

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined. -- Making Magic , p. 23

Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.

We all harbor irreconcilable ideas. (People are no damn good, but I'm a fine fellow. Being overweight is a grave threat to my health; please pass the doughnuts. Life is short; let's watch TV.) Yet most of us get along pretty well.

Mars knew that love wasn't all red-paper valentines and candy hearts. Love wasn't always joy. Love could be hot-blooded pain down to the bone. Sometimes love was despair. And sometimes love was wrong.

Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.