Quotes About Complexity

Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read them.

Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know, but in a much more complicated manner.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Never cut what you can untie.

The essence of man is imperfection.

A finished person is a boring person.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things: a painting and a photograph.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.