Quotes About Complexity

No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into --

Making Final Fantasy X, anyway, look like an Etch A Sketch.

New York as a character in a mystery would not be the detective, would not be the murderer. It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the real story but isn't going to tell it. —DONALD E. WESTLAKE

We are obsessed with building labyrinths, where before there was open plain and sky.

She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for diversity?

Back when, she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on him that he couldn't read at all. Maybe something she'd picked up at acting school. "It isn't what you're thinking, Doc.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that fail to give them that.

Nothing is more complex than avoiding the obvious

In the complexities of real life, seldom is any argument right 100 percent of the time or wrong 100 percent of the time.

The question as to whether flesh-and-blood people of indigenous ancestry today would have been better off had the Europeans not invaded can scarcely be asked, much less answered, because most flesh-and-blood contemporary American Indians would not exist if the Europeans had not invaded, since they are of European as well as indigenous ancestry. Nature is remarkably uncooperative with our moral categories. There is no way to unscramble an egg.

Before an explanation can be too simple, it must first be wrong.

Before an explanation can be too simple, it must first be wrong. But often the fact that some explanation seems too simple becomes a substitute for showing that it is wrong.

lthough the basic principles of economics are not very complicated, the very ease with which they can be learned also makes them easy to dismissed as simplistic by those who do not want to accept analyses which contradict their cherished beliefs. Evasions of the obvious are often far more complicated than the facts. Nor is it automatically true that complex effects must have complex causes. The ramifications of something very simple can become enormously complex.

Economists who looked at the real consequences of a centrally planned economy came to a very different conclusion: that there are too many economic relationships, and it is impossible to take them all into account and carefully coordinate them.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied.

The English language is damned difficult, but it's also damned rich, and so clear and bright that you can search out the darkest places with it.

We have heard the single-issue, pro-life or -death refrain so many times that we no longer remember a time when America's houses of worship, including conservative ones, tended to approach a vast range of issues that affect our society with the humility and appreciation of their complexity that is their due.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,' Madame

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,' Madame added, turning her back on them. 'And therefore, nothing more refined.

Aging does that; it makes you amenable to far more ambiguous feelings and opinions than the inflexible black-and-white thinking of youth.

There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.

Honestly, it's like trying to discuss brain surgery with tapioca.

It's... It's gross. Knowing there is something inside me that I don't understand. It's gross." - Allen Walker

I'm jealous. I suppose, having been with him for decades, we can understand the Earl's feelings.