Quotes About Complexity

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

Not everything can be solved quickly.

If you go deep into a problem, you'll find most all of the time that there are yet more problems to be solved from the ground up.

Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.

If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation alone.

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

Some things in literature are inexplicable.

There are just some things about being president that are difficult.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

People often only see one side to someone's personality, but there are levels.

You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.