Quotes About Complexity

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué." ("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.") [Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

The truth is, you can find almost anything in the Bible to latch onto if you are really determined.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

There are certain mysteries, certain secrets in my own work which even I don't understand, nor do I try to do so.

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

What does it matter who a person is or who they have been? Let them think what they like. We're all so many people, aren't we, nowadays? So confusing it is, I don't know how anyone keeps track. There are the people we are inside, then the people we used to be, then there are the people other people think we are.

I want to reemphasize that we're not dealing with water at the molecular level; we're dealing with crowds of water molecules. We don't yet understand water molecules

There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so.

Effective leaders often have to act even when they don't understand all possible factors

But the Bible is anything but superficial. The Bible is not an easy read, and nature is not a simple study.

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.

Law is a bottomless pit.