Quotes About Complexity

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

I think Roald Dahl had the rarest combination of talking to kids about complex emotions, and he was able to show you that the world of kids was sophisticated, complex, and had a lot more darkness than adults ever want to remember.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.

The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it's not complex: it's an arrow straight to the heart.

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

What I have learned from working on those great shows is what is the DNA that makes them so deeply involving and interesting for an audience over a long period of time. So much has to do with character, complexity, and sophistication.

I may make you angry or make you feel sorry for me, but in the end, you appreciate my show because it's not one-dimensional.

I'm sorry if you're partly black you're partly black. You're not fully black.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to say the prose is old or the prose is too complex. I just fell in love with Jane's very lonely soul, much the same way I fell in love with Frankenstein's creature for the same reason. Those old souls exist in every decade in every century.

I think that all people are many people. I think all people have many, many, many different souls inside, and they just shift from one to the other.

I would like 'Dark Souls' to be a broad exploration game filled with so many veiled things and details.

We have to support everyone so their stories don't get 'invisibilized.' We don't necessarily have to repopulate the next Marvel movie with people of color, but it's just about saying 'We have hearts, we have souls, we have minds, we have faults, we have flaws, and we're super-freaking interesting.'

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.