Quotes About Complexity

If you are confused by the underlying principles of quantum technology – you get it!

I understand that finance can be very complex.

Our lives are already significantly more complex than even five years ago. We need to pay attention to far more sources in order to do our jobs, to learn, to parent, or even to be entertained. The number of factors and possibilities we have to attend to rises each year almost exponentially. Thus our seemingly permanently distracted state and our endless flitting from one thing to another is not a sign of disaster, but is a necessary adaptation to this current environment.

Simple machines can be efficient, but complex adaptive machinery cannot be.

Heavily cognified, incredibly smart filters can be applied to any realm

Given enough time, decentralized connected dumb things can become smarter than we think. Second

This bottom-up overturning was also not in anyone's 20-year vision. No web phenomenon has been more confounding

We'll come to understand that no work, no idea stands alone, but that all good, true, and beautiful things are ecosystems of intertwined parts and related entities, past and present.

Love? Hmmph. It ain't never 'nuff in a crooked-letter state like this.

It didn't make her love him more, but it made her understand him just a little, which was maybe all that was left in her family.

I loved this stuff, bad stuff.

When I woke up, Carl was standing over me, his hand lightly resting on his cheek, like I was abstract art, like he saw something that interested him but he wasn't sure what it meant, like he thought I was something a child could have made.

loved how expertly bitchy she was; I wanted to study her for a year.

what you must understand is that the herald & the horror are the same.

Like God Gumbo is hard to get right & I don't bother asking for it outside my mother's house. Like life, there's no one way to do it, & a hundred ways, from here to Sunday, to get it dead wrong.

As Tony Hoare observed: There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

We programmers are weird creatures. We love writing code. But when it comes to reading it we usually shy away. After all, writing code is so much more fun, and reading code is hard — sometimes almost impossible.

A bunch of women wanting you...that's what you get for being so damn sexy. All of us should be so screwed up.

She had many shortcomings, but perhaps that alone was what made her human. She may not have been a likeable person, but she was, in her own way, a woman to be loved and admired.

We explain the unattractive by pretending it is esoteric.

Villains are always the hero in their own story. Villains always have a reason for what villainy they get up to.

Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.