Quotes About Complexity

would not have been strongly drawn to such pursuits anyway.

As equipment and machinery have become more sophisticated, the knowledge and skill required to operate them has risen accordingly.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put ourselves to death in whole-hearted simplicity?

If we look through all the heroic fortunes of mankind, we shall find [the] same entanglement of something mean and trivial with whatever is noblest in joy or sorrow. Life is made up of marble and mud.

It appears to me, said the daguerreotypist, smiling, that Uncle Venner has the principles of Fourier at the bottom of his wisdom; only they have not quite so much distinctness in his mind as in that of the systematizing Frenchman.

in our day, the very A B C has become a science greatly too abstruse to be any longer taught by pointing a pin from letter to letter.

The thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once.

it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once.

Democracy is a luxury enjoyed by simple low-population societies, though wealth can maintain it for longer than its natural span. However, societies grow in population and complexity, the technological apparatus of control improves, individual freedoms impinge upon others until they demand "action" from government that is generally eager to comply and accrue more power to itself, and democracy gradually sickens and dies.

Human nature is both predictable and mysterious; prone to great and sudden advances, yet still mired in despicable self-interest.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

finding easy scapegoats for complicated problems had been a human pastime since the first mob of cavemen struck someone down with a rock.

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness all our lives.

The simpler the solution, the harder it is to arrive at.

No one knows wether you're a monster or a hero. Is there a third choice?

But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.

No me pareces espantoso.Es simplemente que no hay modo de medirte. Es como contemplar un Picasso y tratar de decidir si la mujer del cuardo es guapa o fea. Uno no lo sabe, pero no puede dejar de mirarla. -Me ves como una obra de arte. Eso me parece bien. -Sí, bueno... pero nunca me ha gustado Picasso.

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of the darkness and light all our lives.

The things I feel cannot be put into words, or if they can, the words are in no language anyone can understand.