Quotes About Complexity

So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. I'm a great multitasker.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will.' Her lips touched his cheek. 'I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

You know that I love you quite a lot --But sometimes... not. Sometimes not.I don't know why.I guess IJust hate you sometimes, Because sometimes I even hate myself, And she loves you.

I have always been loved and hated for the same reason and by the same people.

What a mess you've made of the simplest of subjects, Della.

She has one hell of a dark soul, but damn, it's so full of light!

I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light.

And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.

It almost contradicts itself, " she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.

. . .how he had loved Christine more than he had understood, that sometimes one forgot what it meant, really, to love, the way the tide of a marriage advances and retreats, . .

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Loving passionately, loving fiercely, loving and taking both good and bad, and at times, the damn near impossible, provides sweet chaos, fueling the pitter patter of the heart...

We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult.

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.

I love you, but there will be a dozen more too.

Life is strange, and often imponderable!

If you hear a prominent economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.

People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.

The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.

Complex systems are full of interdependencies—hard to detect—and nonlinear responses.

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).