Quotes About Complexity

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

DRAM circuits were carved into silicon. They didn't need to be weaved by hand, so they malfunctioned

Intel's first problem was artificial intelligence.

Tolstoy said that "each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—

I love you, Savin Savage Pajari. I always will. That twisted part of you is what matches the twisted in me." Seychell to Savage

He poured his feelings into the kiss, fire and ice, love and regret, joy and bitterness. Everything he had to give her.

He both hated and loved that his woman was intelligent. The hating it was stronger right then than the loving it. He was going to tell the others to make certain their women were on the dumber side and "yes, anything you say is law" women

The schizophrenic position is one where a self's embedment in the solace of the quotidian is breached, and consciousness is confronted with both the complexities of thought processes and the raw materials of unconscious function.

The usual duty of the "intellectual" is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae.

He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple personalities.

We make no saint of Thomas Jefferson—we leave the mindless business of canonization and the worship of humans to the fanatics—but aware as we are of his many crimes and contradictions we say with confidence that his memory and example will endure long after the moral pygmies who try to blot out his name have been forgotten.

The usual duty of the intellectual is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae

Very often in my experience, the extraneous or irrelevant complexities are inserted when a matter of elementary justice or principle is at issue.

The stamp of the lowly origin is to be found in our appendix, in the now needless coat of hair that we still grow (and then shed) after five months in the womb, in our easily worn-out knees, our vestigial tails, and the many caprices of our urinogenital arrangements. Why do people keep saying, "God is in the details"? He isn't in ours, unless his yokel creationist fans wish to take credit for his clumsiness, failure, and incompetence.

The naive and simple are seldom as naive and simple as they seem, and this suspicion is reinforced by those who proclaim their own naïveté and simplicity.

The most educated person in the world now has to admit—I shall not say confess—that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

There's a small paradox here; the job of supposed intellectuals is to combat oversimplification or reductionism and to say, well, actually, it's more complicated than that.

There is an intriguing paradox here: evolution does not have eyes but it can create them.

Why did I speak of intellectual courage? Because the human mind, including my own, rebels emotionally against the idea that something as complex as life, and the rest of the expanding universe, could have 'just happened'. It takes intellectual courage to kick yourself out of your emotional incredulity and persuade yourself that there is no other rational choice.

George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy.

What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

I am a quite unnecessarily complicated piece of mechanism

Punih deset godina nisam ni sa živom dušom razgovarao intimno kao što sam razgovarao no?as s vama ... Da, ima u vama nešto što me privla?i i na ?emu vam veoma zavidim, a opet ta ista vaša osobina izaziva moje protivljenje ... Možda je to naprosto zato što sam i ja djelimi?no Englez, te vi meni predstavljate jedan vid mog vlastitog karaktera ...