Quotes About Complexity

It seems nothing is ever that simple when Tennessee politics are involved.

Partners: Tied together by stuff too difficult to explain to someone new

us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

We're both clever and stupid in equal measure.

One of the beautiful things about mathematical physics is that equations contain stories.

Occam's razor is an important tool in science. It shouldn't be oversold; nature can be complex and bizarre. But as a rule of thumb, it is most sensible to adopt the simplest explanation for an observation until the evidence overwhelms it.

She was a whole girl made of two half girls, but wrongly made, of two of the same halves.

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.

People clustered in twos or threes or fours, I have come to believe, both constitute creatures in and of themselves and, together as tandems or triunes or packs, form another sort of myriad-minded creature whose actions are far from predictable.

Organisms are themselves expressions of … emergent order and agents of higher levels of emergence.

Il nous faut partir d'une conception d'ensemble de l'organisme en tant qu'une entité fondamentale de la biologie, puis comprendre comment celui-ci se divise en parties qui respectent son ordre intrinsèque - pour donner un organisme harmonieusement intégré en dépit de sa complexité.

there is an inherent rationality to life that makes it intelligible at a much deeper level than functional utility …

comparing infinities is a treacherous business

THERE ARE times in life when the wrong thing to do is actually the right thing to do. Maybe vice versa, too. I don't know. I haven't gotten around to testing that theory yet.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

Confronted with social collapse and chaos people had to learn a new mentality (conventionally called "consciousness"). In other words, subjective experience was a product of several centuries of learning new ways to navigate cultural complexity, not a consequence of biological evolution.

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.

The machine was so intricate, so complicated, that he almost got dizzy looking at it. Even in its sad state of disrepair, it was beautiful.

Nor could she frame deeper words herself; human understandings trickled shallow these days. It was the way.