Quotes About Complexity

Cleon II was Lord of the Universe. Cleon II also suffered from a painful and undiagnosed ailment. By the queer twists of human affairs, the two statements are not mutually exclusive, nor even particularly incongruous.

There's no question of your working out the entire future of the Galactic Empire, you know. You needn't trace out in detail the workings of every human being or even of every world. There are merely certain questions you must answer: Will the Galactic Empire crash and, if so, when? What will be the condition of humanity afterward? Can anything be done to prevent the crash or to ameliorate conditions afterward? These are comparatively simple questions, it seems to me.

el hombre ha tratado siempre de rehuir el concepto de infinitud, ya sea del espacio o del tiempo, como algo imposible de concebir y entender, y por ende, como un concepto con el que no es fácil trabajar ni razonar.

The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again.

en muchas ocasiones las reacciones humanas no parecen seguir con lógica los acontecimientos. —Eso es lo que hace difícil decidir, a veces, lo que puede dañar a un ser humano y lo que no.

Aparentemente, las multitudes se manejan más fácilmente que los individuos. Parece una paradoja.

intrissacies

Las palabras son un sustituto bastante confuso de las ecuaciones matemáticas.

Along with the atom, the personality of the Homo Sapiens has been splitting...

Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated from each other.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Feminism, like the ocean, is fluid, powerful, deep, and encompasses the infinite complexity of life; it moves in waves, currents, tides, and sometimes in storms. Like the ocean, feminism never stays quiet.

An invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. In response to Clara's imagination and the requirements of the moment, the noble, seigniorial architecture began sprouting all sorts of extra little rooms, staircases, turrets, and terraces...the big house on the corner soon came to resemble a labyrinth.

inima e mare, po?i iubi mai mult de un singur om

Since 1973, the year of the military coup that changed so many things, situating has become a little more complex because in the first three minutes of conversation you also have to guess whether the person you're speaking to was for or against the dictatorship.

Yo no era capaz de quererlo como aparentemente él me quería a mí.

El patriarcado es pétreo. El feminismo, como el océano, es fluido, poderoso, profundo y tiene la complejidad infinita de la vida, se mueve en olas, corrientes, mareas y a veces en tormentas furiosas. Como el océano, el feminismo no se calla.

El feminismo, como el océano, es fluido, poderoso, profundo y tiene la complejidad infinita de la vida, se mueve en olas, corrientes, mareas y a veces en tormentas furiosas. Como el océano, el feminismo no se calla.

Qué larga y confusa es la vida, mamá! — Al menos tú puedes escribirla para tratar de entenderla.

I don't think there are any easy Led Zeppelin songs.

If I were to come to the plate what would I play? 'Start Me Up'... maybe... by the Stones. Definitely wouldn't mind that. Something by Springsteen. Just a bit or a piece of 'Kitty's Back in Town.' Or something from Led Zeppelin like 'Ramble On.' That's a tough question. For anybody who can nail it down to one song, God bless them.

I'm a little bit nervous for us with all of this electronically generated new hyper-space that we've moved into, where not only people but also economies and systems, like banking, are left to zeros and ones. I want to be more than a zero or one.

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.