Quotes About Complexity

You lay claim to your stories; you honor, with your hard work and the best of your talent, their inspirations, and you fight to tell them well from a sense of indebtedness and thankfulness. The ambiguities, the contradictions, the complexities of your choices are always with you in your writing as they are in your life. You learn to live with them. You trust your need to have a dialogue about what you deem important.

That doesn't mean that the Internet of Things will triumph, because, in some ways, it can't win. It's too broad and vague to win; it's a huge, looming infrastructural phenomenon, much like "electrification" or "automation" once were. People never voted to become electrical or automated.

Life, and intelligence, do not mix very well.

Si la ecología enloquece, es porque en efecto es una alteración de la alteración de las relaciones con el mundo.

Pour se repérer dans l'incertitude, il faut d'abord se perdre dans la complexité.

Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.

Since the Fall man is separated from himself. Man is complicated, and he tries to bury himself in himself. Therefore, it will take time and it will cost something to discover what the person we are speaking to often has not yet discovered for himself.138

you'll have to be willing to embrace simplicity—while always resisting oversimplification.

hot-rodding lasted until the 1980s when, as Matthew Crawford observes, electronic engine management made everything under the bonnet 'a little opaque'. It is hard to rod a computer.

Yet few remember today that before Santa Anna was Texas's enemy, he was its friend. He is a singular figure in Mexican history, a man who held the presidency eleven times in twenty-two years.

Adult life is terrible, Hazel. Never grow up. Everything's complicated, and there are too many rules ...

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

A man should be a mystery to his fellow man, and not because he wants to be, but because he can't be anything else.

If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant's face in its profounder and more subtle meanings, how may unlettered Ishmael hope to read the awful Chaldee of the Sperm Whale's brow? I but put that brow before you. Read it if you can.

How wondrous familiar is a fool!

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.

Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep. I know him not, and never will. But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none?

Shall I call that Wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a foolish look to it; yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort of wiseish look to it.

because any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Alle tragischen Männer gewinnen ihre Größe durch etwas Krankhaftes in ihnen.

Those who thought they best knew her, often wondered what happiness such a being could take in life, not considering the happiness which is to be had by some natures in the very easy way of simply causing pain to those around them.