Quotes About Complexity

One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys.

There is bad in all good authors

At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from cans of soup. And yet we can do many complex and even fun things we do not usually see cans of soup doing.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

The most complex analyses grow beautifully simple as they become public objects.

Freud is the least confused of modern minds because he has no message; he accepts contradiction, and builds his psychology on it.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning.

For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions.

It's a rare day when a journalist says, "The market rose today for any one of a hundred different reasons, or a mix of them, so no one knows.

Archilochus: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Unpredictability and predictability coexist uneasily in the intricately interlocking systems that make up our bodies, our societies, and the cosmos. How predictable something is depends on what we are trying to predict, how far into the future, and under what circumstances.

warrior-poet Archilochus: "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.

Simple doesn't have to mean easy.

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Las cosas no son blancas ni negras, lo que reina es el gris. Los hombres, sus almas... Pasa lo mismo. Tú eres un alma gris, rematadamente gris, cómo todos nosotros.

C'est un peu comme les êtres au fond, ceux justement que l'on croise durant des années, mais qu'on ne connaît jamais, et qui se révèlent un jour, sous nos yeux, comme jamais on ne les aurait crus capables d'être.

Rien n'est tout noir, ni tout blanc, c'est le gris qui gangne. Les hommes et leurs âmes, c'est pareil... T'es une âme grise, joliment grise, comme nous tous...

Ik heb nog nooit een schoft of een heilige gezien. De dingen zijn nooit helemaal zwart of helemaal wit, alles is grijs. Mensen en hun zielen ook… Je ziel is grijs, behoorlijk grijs, zoals die van ons allemaal…

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Now, if anything in the world is complex, language is complex.