Quotes About Complexity

I'm possessed, recursively.

I've suffered for what I know, so I'm not going to let you off the hook with a simple one-liner. I think you deserve a detailed explanation.

Or was it running the world's weirdest Turing-complete variant Dungeons & Dragons campaign using a rule set isomorphic with first-order transdimensional summoning algebra—

As former Fed governor Kevin Warsh has said, "Economics, and the conduct of monetary policy, after all, is not physics.

our ability to analyze data has grown far more sophisticated than our thinking about what we ought to do with the results. You

Although the field of statistics is rooted in mathematics, and mathematics is exact, the use of statistics to describe complex phenomena is not exact.

I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a person, and just because vodka accounts for 50 percent of my body weight, that doesn't mean I walk around with a vodka drip, forcing every plant, person, or animal to imbibe. I've always had a disliking for animal trainers, and this guy cemented my theory that people who chaperone animals for a living have never had a girl sit on their face.

The face of an angel, the mind of a devil, and a heart of gold.

No person is just one thing. People can be filled with light and affection and also be tortured and conniving and dishonest. Happiness can coincide with great pain. One can lead while also following, the same way one can follow while also leading

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. There is this complexity which seems to me to be part of the meaning of existence and everything we value.

The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious way. In other words, we play politics with language, and in so doing conceal the reality and the complexity of our situation from ourselves and from those foolish enough to put their trust in us.

And strange are the ways of deep emotion.

Variety is free: It costs no more to make every product different than to make them all the same. 2. Complexity is free: A minutely detailed product, with many fiddly little components, can be 3-D printed as cheaply as a plain block of plastic. The computer doesn't care how many calculations it has to do. 3. Flexibility is free: Changing a product after production has started just means changing the instruction code. The machines stay the same.

Those who look at others as simple, one-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

Another misconception that people have is that if you're a good-looking girl, you can get anyone. But that's the thing... it's more tough for us - when you can choose anyone, who do you choose?

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

Everyone has their own mission in life and what they've got to do. You can't knock them for it. There's always a lot going on in people's lives.

Make no mistake, blockchain will be a game changer, but it is not the answer to every business opportunity or problem.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.

People misunderstand me.