Quotes About Complexity

Systems thinking is "contextual," which is the opposite of analytical thinking. Analysis means taking something apart in order to understand it; systems thinking means putting it into the context of a larger whole.

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

The complexity and efficiency of the physicist's technical apparatus is matched, if not surpassed, by that of the mystic's consciousness—both physical and spiritual—in deep meditation.

The natural world, on the other hand, is one of infinite varieties and complexities, a multidimensional world which contains no straight lines or completely regular shapes, where things do not happen in sequences, but all together; a world where—as modern physics tells us—even empty space is curved.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

Leonardo did not pursue science and engineering in order to dominate nature, as Francis Bacon would advocate a century later, but always tried to learn as much as possible from nature. He was in awe of the beauty he saw in the complexity of natural forms, patterns, and processes, and aware that nature's ingenuity was far superior to human design. Accordingly, he often used natural processes and structures as models for his own designs.

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

You appear infinitely generous, but you are a woman of infinite passion, in hate as well as love.

It's no game. Believe me, she is a woman of far greater complexity than you—or anyone—realize. The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume. Oh, she has extraordinary charm. Next to that secret charm of hers, her talent as a poet is really only a sort of costume.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

NT is alarmingly complex. Consisting of six million lines of code, the program is among humanity's most intricate handiworks. "No one mind can comprehend it all," Cutler says. A

The practice of writing code in C++ continually upset Cutler because it created so much confusion and inefficiency.

With software, you know what you have to do," he said, "but it's always a big surprise how long it will take." Miller

The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful—'important' if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and 'serious' expresses what I mean much better

Matemati?in çok küçük bölümü pratik yarar sa?lar; o küçük bölüm de oldukça s?k?c?d?r.

Ad?n? koyamad???m?z her ?eyin fakiri oldu?umuz o kadar do?ru ki.

Do?an?n i?lerinde her ?ey kafam?z? kar??t?r?yor, sanki dersiniz ki, ?eylerin yarat?c?s? bununla e?leniyor.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.