Quotes About Complexity

We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there.

Building a livable world isn't rocket science; it's far more complex than that. - Ed Ayres

But just because it's a forty-sixth-order derivative equation or something doesn't mean that I can't work out which side of that equation is the guilty one.

All our roots go deep down, even if they're tangled

The vulva, clitoris, and vagina are actually best understood as the surface of an ocean that is shot through with vibrant networks of underwater lightning—intricate and fragile, individually varied neural pathways.

complexity doesn't exist for its own sake, or to prove a theoretical point, but because it provides the right sound at the right time to express very human emotions.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult

If you stop and think through what it means to grow, the process is astonishing. Each part of the body has to change its shape and size to match every other part. There's no central blueprint for the construction of an adult human. Each cell has to decide for itself, using nothing more than chemical signals and its own network of genes, RNA molecules, and proteins.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

What a mess the world is in. It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

la mujer desea lo contrario de lo que piensa o declara

U beskrajnom univerzumu bilo je previše stvari koje su izmicale ljudskom razumijevanju.

In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding.

Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

Il cuore di una donna è un meccanismo complesso, insensibile ai rozzi ragionamenti del maschio avventuriero. Se si vuole davvero possedere una donna, bisogna imparare a pensare come lei. Tutto il resto, il morbido involucro che ti fa perdere la ragione e l'onore, viene di conseguenza.

could try to tell you the story, but it would be like describing a cathedral by saying it's a pile of stones ending in a spire.

No sé yo mucho de mujeres, la verdad. —Saber no sabe nadie, ni Freud, ni ellas mismas

La gente se complica la vida, como si no fuese suficientemente complicada.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they're not telling the whole story.

Alicia says that every crime is like an onion: you have to cut through lots of layers to find out what's hidden inside, and on the way you must shed a few tears.

A usted cómo le gustan las mujeres, Daniel? —No sé yo mucho de mujeres, la verdad. —Saber no sabe nadie, ni Freud, ni ellas mismas, pero esto es como la electricidad, no hace falta saber cómo funciona para picarse los dedos. Hala, cuente. ¿Cómo le gustan?

O coração de fêmea é um labirinto de subtilezas que desafia a mente grosseira do macho trapaceiro.