Quotes About Complexity

You ...see us ...and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history.

Why was America so kind and yet so cruel?

João amava Teresa que amava Raimundo que amava Maria que amava Joaquim que amava Lili que não amava ninguém. João foi para os Estados Unidos, Teresa para o convento, Raimundo morreu de desastre, Maria ficou para tia, Joaquim suicidou-se e Lili casou com J. Pinto Fernandes que não tinha entrado na história.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

If you find things complicated, it means you haven't understood them. Simplicity is the basis of everything.

Science is making the world get more and more expensive. When science brings out a new gadget it costs more than the others. People have to earn more to buy it. So science is making the world more difficult, more complex. It makes people run more. What we need is to rest more, talk more, walk more, fuck more and enjoy things in life more. There's a limit to what Europeans call technological and industrial development. When that

Besides, as Mark Twain once said, "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Quién puede entender los mil hilos que unen las almas de los hombres y el alcance de sus palabras?

Pentru c? îmi place s?-i privesc pe din?untru... S?-i v?d gândind. Din ce fel de idei sunt f?cute gândurile lor? Åži ce simt ei, atunci când se îndr?gostesc de mine? Adev?ru-i c?, dac? stai s? te gândeÅŸti bine, jocul e cam plictisitor, c?ci au niÅŸte ÅŸiretlicuri copil?reÅŸti, mereu aceleaÅŸi.

The Storyteller's Secret Storytellers who simplify complexity speak succinctly. They practice their pitch until they can tell a compelling story in as little as 60 seconds.

Of all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.

Love covers a myriad of plausibility structures.

But, for better or worse, the human mind is more complex than the brain of a rat or a puppy. A dog may appear contrite for having been caught peeing on the carpet, but she will not try to think up justifications for her misbehavior. Humans think—and because we think, dissonance theory demonstrates, our behavior transcends the effects of rewards and punishments and often contradicts them.

I love you because onions are more complicated than cherries. I'm doomed. I

You're an onion and Karen's a Maraschino cherry and I love you because onions are more complicated than cherries. I'm doomed.

And death is simple. Life is what's complicated

It's good to know all sides if you're gonna love someone

Love is kind, love is patient but also, mainly, above all - yes - Love is perverted.

Humans. I will never understand.

Benjamin J. Ashby the third. Oh there's three of them.

I found it paralyzingly difficult to make even the simplest decisions. So much hung in the balance, so many complicated parameters needed to be taken into consideration, yet always there was too little information, no way to know what outcomes could result. Life was a terrifying, invisible web of consequences. What mayhem might I unknowingly wreak by saying yes when I could have said no, by going east instead of west?

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

She bent her head over the flowers. He knew she was not beautiful. He knew she did not see herself as the object of a man's lust. He knew if he told her he found her desirable, she'd not understand his meaning. She'd think he meant something other than marriage. In that, she would be right, but a man could want both things from the same woman.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.