Quotes About Complexity

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

Whenever you're in a show that has a lot of special effects, there is a large margin for error.

Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. I don't feel like that's my specialty.

We are a complex species to observe.

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.

When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.

You don't have people who are monsters and only do bad. There's good and bad for everybody. It's all a spectrum.

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

Growing up, I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from 'I Dream of Jeannie' on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

So many people discuss, you know, Israel/Palestine as if it's people on a spectrum.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

It's really interesting to play someone you wouldn't want to ever spend more than a couple of drinks with - but who has redeemable characteristics.

Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Politics is not a laboratory experiment where you can control everything. You have to take calls even when you feel that matters may spin out of your hand.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.