Quotes About Complexity

There's something depraved about screwing a woman who doesn't give a fuck about it. It heats your blood…" And then, after a moment's meditation— "Can you imagine what she'd be like if she had any feelings?

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues. You can't separate them. They're wedded.

This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can't grasp it.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

For me the book is the man and my book is the man I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the recklass man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, thoughtful, scrupulous, lying, diabolically thruthful man that I am.

The world is divided into three parts of which two parts are meat balls and spaghetti and the other part a huge syphilitic chancre. (revised, correct quote)

Eu,una,n-am s? fiu niciodat? mam?,a declarat Stasia.Am ras cu to?ii.Nici so?ie nu am s? fiu vreodat?;Doamne,e destul de complicat s? fii femeie.Ur?sc femeile!Toate-s ni?te c??ele scarboase,chiar cele mai bune dintre ele.Eu o s? fiu ceea ce sunt:o impostoare care joac? rolul de femeie.

Chaos is een woord dat we hebben uitgevonden voor een orde die we niet begrijpen.

Paris is like a whore.

Behind the world is chaos. Each word a stripe, a bar, but there are not and never will be enough bars to make the mesh

Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

although the future is not predictable in any detail, it is manageable as an aggregate phenomenon.

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

I don't feel pride when I look at a magazine spread I did for Vogue, but writing is really satisfying to me. I can go so deep into people's interior lives, slowly and with complexity, over years and years sometimes. That's very rewarding, in a way that modelling never was.

I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.