Quotes About Complexity

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Non potrò mai essere tutte le persone che vorrei essere, né vivere tutte le vite che vorrei vivere. Non sarò mai all'altezza di tutte le qualità che vorrei avere. Perché desidero tutto questo? Io voglio vivere e sentire tutte le sfumature, i toni e le variazioni di tutte le esperienze fisiche e mentali possibili in questa vita

Preferiría que algo funcionara mal en mi cuerpo a que funcionara mal en mi cabeza, pero la idea parecía tan complicada que no dije nada

How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience in my life.

They had an efficiency, a great beauty, And were extravagant, like torture.

It is quite conversational sounding in spite of the elaborate 7-line pentameter stanzas rhyming ababcbc and is more ambitious than anything I've ever done, although I feel to be doing it like a patchwork quilt, without anything more than the general idea it should come out a rectangular shape, but not seeing how the logical varicolored pieces should fit.

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.

He pipes a world of snakes, Of sways and coilings, from the snake-rooted bottom Of his mind. (...)

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

I'm not built the way most people are and require more in this life to be laid plain before me than is common.

It's classic: Congress decides to reduce the complexity of our tax code by making it even more complex.

Most of them ran counter to the ethos of BBLR. Virtually all of them made the tax code more complicated—including that bizarre "anti-complexity clause," Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX). Three decades after the passage of the 1986 reforms, the U.S. tax code is a mockery of the BBLR principle.

IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, a voluminous and hugely complex new law, which included the laughable "anti-complexity clause"—that is, Section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii)(IX).

the number one most serious problem facing American taxpayers. That problem is the complexity of the tax code.

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

Are contented with the morning that separates And with the evening that brings together For casual talk before the fire Two people who know they do not understand each other, Breeding children whom they do not understand And who will never understand them.

Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them.

Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing upon a refined sensibility, must produce various and complex results. The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into his meaning.

About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.

Theo knew enough about women and their clothes to recognize she was trying to strike an appropriate balance between... what? Between liking him and hating him? Between wanting to look good and not wanting to look too available? Just because he knew a mixed message when he saw one didn't mean he knew exactly which messages were being mixed

It's a lot harder being smart than it is being stupid.

If you pull a single thread away it is just that—a single thread. I defy any man to read a tapestry from a solitary strand.

We were already fucked so many ways they could have dedicated an entire revision of the Kama Sutra just to us.