Quotes About Complexity

C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book.

She [Sisi] knows how to keep him [Franz Joseph] interested in a thousand ways. And her peculiarity, her singularity may not always be easy for him to bear. But surely she has never bored him.

Because this is one of the things I learned on my own: you need to say things simply, especially when they're complicated.

I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...

They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not when they're in love but afterward, when they finally realize all the many horrible and beautiful things locked up within that love.

Why wasn't it more difficult? ... Shouldn't some things be difficult?

It was a complicated look. I remember thinking that, and I also remember thinking that you had to have known someone for a really long time to be able to look at him like that, and he had to have known you for a really long time to be able to understand it.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

Complexity yields resilience.

One of the most famous aphorisms in science is the British biologist J. B. S. Haldane's answer to the question, What might one conclude about God based on a study of His creation? "An inordinate fondness for beetles.

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have used the term "complex trauma" to try to capture developmental neglect and maltreatment, but I believe that lumps too many things into one box.

Programming is about managing complexity: the complexity of the problem, laid upon the complexity of the machine. Because of this complexity, most of our programming projects fail.

So one way of looking at our trillion-celled bodies is that they are protein machines, although, as you know, I think we are more than machines! It sounds simple, but it isn't. For one thing, it takes over 100,000 different types of proteins to run our bodies. Let

This imprecision has been abetted partly by the modern media, whose efforts to communicate an often complex and convoluted message in the briefest amount of airtime or print space possible have led to the promiscuous labeling of a range of violent acts as "terrorism.

A fascinating quality of the human mind is its ability to hold firmly and simultaneously to contradictory ideas. Slave owners were a case in point. They

A fascinating quality of the human mind is its ability to hold firmly and simultaneously to contradictory ideas.

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and our systems are getting more complex all the time.

The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The

Security is hard; while you can show that a particular algorithm is weak, you can't show that one algorithm you don't know how to break is more secure than another.

It's not that math can solve the world's problems. It's just that the world's problems would be easier to solve if everyone just knew a little bit more math.