Quotes About Complexity

and I wanted this girl who was like no girl I had ever known, wanted her not in spite of her moods and her secret bruises and her sad attempts at artifice but because of them, because of them all.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

It's lovely. I hate it.

I may not be confident or ambitious but at least I'm not confident and ambitious

Genetics is a bit like peeking behind a movie's special effects to find a deceptively simple and elegant system running the whole show.

Leçon: Ne jamais réduire l'autre à la perception que l'on peut en avoir, à ses problèmes, à sa pauvreté ou à ses crises.

Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.

about "closure" and how worthless it was—why was it that everyone these days needed resolution, why couldn't they just accept that life was messy, that it never ended neatly?

I guess the truth is we never know every detail about another person.

There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots.

Gloria once told me that your best quality is also your worst.

Human emotion is beyond comprehension, smooth and uninterrupted, like an orb made of blown glass.

There are too many loose ends in the world in need of knots. You can't attend to all of them, but you have to try.

I kissed her every way I could think of. I kissed her forehead like she was my daughter. I kissed her quivering eyelids like she was my dead mother. I kissed her hard on her cheeks like you do before you kill someone. I kissed her collarbone the way you do when you want more. I pulled her earlobe with my teeth the way you do when you know what someone likes. I did everything, and she sat as pliable as a doll.

It's funny how you think you can know a person

You can never know another person's mind; this is one thing I have learned.

Marriage is complicated.

you can never know another person's mind; this is one thing that I've learned.

Love is a maze.Once you get in it, you're pretty much trapped.

You can never know another person's mind;

God is simple. It is only man which is an obscure darkness." Reb Isaac threw him an approving glance. But David said, "I feel that nothing is simple, and nothing obscure. Only thought makes it so, and often I am weary of thinking.

Experience is algorithmically incompressible.

In the Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead attempted to give a rigorous foundation to mathematics using formal logic as their basis. They began with what they considered to be axioms, and used those to derive theorems of increasing complexity. By page 362, they had established enough to prove "1 + 1 = 2.