Quotes About Complexity

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

This life is messy.

I think that life is messy and that human beings are insane.

We know that the end of any conflict is always messy. It's never a linear path when you've been at war for almost 20 years. It's never a clean, straight linear path to the end.

Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise from that.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

Scaling is multidimensional. Different methods address different things.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

Florida is a great microcosm of the country.

In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.

The situation of any leader in the Middle East is not easy.

There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.

There are no short cuts, no detours in the Middle East.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

No bank should be too big or too complex to fail, but almost any bank is too big to liquidate quickly, particularly in the midst of a crisis.

Making sense of a political moment when you're in the midst of it is difficult: even if you avoid commercial and personal conflicts, it can still be hard to see it and understand it.

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

I have a gruff side. This is not exactly news... At the same time, anyone who wants to judge me for this can walk a mile in my moccasins. And then we'll talk.

There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like 'Running with Scissors.'

I think I'm a million different faces.