Quotes About Complexity

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.

Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

The way people see Africa is mostly dark.

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.

Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country... my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.

My dad has children by four different mothers.

Sometimes when I hear people talking about their families, or their relationships with their mothers and fathers, I hear it but it's not something I totally understand.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

The idea that a lot of sons marry their mothers subconsciously, which I have done in my own life, was interesting to explore.

I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

Sin importar cuánto deseemos organizar todo de manera racional, sin desperdicios, ni cuán apasionada y cuidadosamente deseemos colocar todos los ladrillos de la estructura económica, sin grietas en la argamasa, esto continúa escapando a nuestras posibilidades.