Quotes About Complexity

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too.

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.

We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.

Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be. "Why?" he said to his lover. "Because I want you for however long I have you.

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.

I never see my bad guys as simply bad. They want pretty much the same thing that you and I want: they want to be happy.

A real turnoff for guys is any girl who is way too into them. Like, you're being way too nice. Guys, as well as girls, like that sense of badness. I want a good girl, who can be a little bad.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.