Quotes About Complexity

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. " Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered. "Style, no substance, my friend.

What does love even mean when you can find it with so many people and things?

Why'd you give him all that stuff after he tried to rob me?" "Because he was less fortunate than us, Natty. And Daddy always said that we have to be mindful of those who are less fortunate." "But Daddy killed people, didn't he?" "Yes," I admitted. "Daddy was complex.

The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light.

Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

I love you, ... It is hard for me to say, because sometimes it doesn't seem like it is enough.

A.J. watches Maya in her pink party dress, and he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.

I think they're in love." Sam sniffed, as if the idea of it, love, was ridiculous. "You disapprove, I take it?" "Marx is always in love. He's an emotional harlot. What does love even mean when you can find it with so many people and things?" "Marx is great," Sadie said. "I think he's lucky.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it.

How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.

In a world of planar surfaces, someone became 3D

A maze," he would say, "is a video game distilled to its purest form.

I Am a Strange Loop, by Doug Hofstadter

I love you," Daedalus said. "It is hard for me to say, because sometimes it doesn't seem like it is enough.

Kiedy? przekonasz si?, ?e ludzie z regu?y nie s? ani ca?kiem dobrzy, ani ?li. Mo?e w nich tkwi? odrobina dobra i ca?a masa z?a albo mog? by? z gruntu dobrzy z niewielk? domieszk? z?a

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life

I also think people didn't truly understand the Internet back then, if indeed they can be said to understand it now.

I would say I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn't? When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

It wasn't illegal, but it was possibly immoral," Ruby said. "Maybe it wasn't immoral, but it was definitely disloyal. Maybe—" "Never mind, this seems terribly complicated," said Embeth. "Let's put a pin in that.

And as any mixed-race person will tell you - to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.