Quotes About Complexity

thus becoming, it seems, his sister-in-law's sister-in-law's husband and raising the possibility that any children of the union would be their own first cousins.

Psychologically, we're all a complex mixture of hopes and fears. Each day we wake up with the scales tipping a bit one way or the other. If they go too far toward hopefulness, we can become naïve and unrealistic. If the scales tilt too far the other way, we can get consumed by paranoia and hatred.

After being married for nearly thirty years and observing my friends' experiences with separations, reconciliations, and divorces, I've learned that marriage, with all its magic and misery, its contentments and disappointments, remains a mystery, not easy for those in it to understand and largely inaccessible to outsiders.

Every life has layers, Peter. Everyone has things they don't talk about. It doesn't make them less real. It might make them more precious.

The energy industry is simply enormous—at around $5 trillion a year, one of the biggest businesses on the planet. Anything that big and complex will resist change. And consciously or not, we have built a lot of inertia into the energy industry.

Technology is only one reason that the energy industry can't change as quickly as the computer industry. There's also size. The energy industry is simply enormous—at around $5 trillion a year, one of the biggest businesses on the planet. Anything that big and complex will resist change.

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

Calvin: I read this library book you got me. Calvin's Mom: What did you think of it? Calvin: It really made me see things differently. It's given me a lot to think about. Calvin's Mom: I'm glad you enjoyed it. Calvin: It's complicating my life. Don't get me any more.

This is the middle. Things have had time to get complicated, messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore... This is the thick of things. So much is crowded into the middle— ...too much to name, too much to think about.

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

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

The number of errors in code correlates strongly with the amount of code and the complexity of the code.

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.

Two contrary reasons . We must begin with that, otherwise we cannot understand anything and everything is heretical. And even at the end of each truth we must add that we are bearing the opposite truth in mind.

The parts of the universe . . . all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Things have various qualities and the soul various tendencies, for nothing presented to the soul is simple, and the soul never applies itself simply to any subject. That is why the same thing makes us laugh and cry.

The human heart is hard to grasp.

reality has too many heads

We heard the Sermon on the Mount and I knew it was too complex, It didn't amount to anything more than what the broken glass reflects. When you bite off more than you can chew you pay the penalty, Somebody's got to tell the tale, I guess it must be up to me. –Bob Dylan, "Up To Me

You couldn't talk to him in adult logic. Teenage logic was necessary.

If a problem can't be solved easily, make it bigger

It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are! - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

She has more names than petticoats.