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Quotes About Complexity

The extreme ability to find the complex simple, to simplify the complex and to find complexity in the simple is the hallmark of genius.
~ Goa Kerle
Natura nu mai g?se?te nicio ie?ire din labirintul for?elor încâlcite ?i contradictorii, ?i atunci omul trebuie s? moar?.
~ Goethe
He had learned by experience that the motives and purposes by which men are influenced are far too various to be made to coalesce upon a single point, even on the most solid representations.
~ Goethe Johann-Wolfgang
She was difficult, she knew. She did not make friends. She was brisk and demanding, unsparing and indulgent.
~ Gordon Dahlquist
For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
~ Gordon Korman
For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
~ Gordon Korman
No churlish moralist ever uttered a falser maxim than that "Beauty is but skin deep." Why Beauty is so deep that nobody has ever got to the bottom of it.
~ Thomas Clark Henley
"We want in so many different ways to be," he began again. "This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so…" He moved his hand up, then down… "He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil..."
~ Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1899
My skin is kind of sort of brownish Pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, But I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, But it's silver when it's wet. And all the colors I am inside Have not been invented yet.
~ Shel Silverstein, "Colors"
The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.
~ Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2008
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
History is a vast dust-heap of falsehood with a few pennies of truth scattered through it.
~ Austin O'Malley
The road through Irish history is made up of lanes which wind about, and never come to an end till they twist into pathways which never begin.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Nature is now. Humans are a tangled mess of past, present, and future.
~ Terri Guillemets
Humans have an odd ecology.
~ Terri Guillemets
L'amour qu'il avait pour elle l'empêchait de bien la comprendre; elle, en revanche, ne le comprenait pas parce que sa stature excédait tout ce qui se trouvait dans le champ borné de sa perception.
~ Jack London
Tanjecterly may be no more than one of Twitten's idle fables; his caprices and pranks are well documented elsewhere. On the other hand, the almanac is said to be a work of great complexity and inner coherence, which would seem to lend the volume credence.
~ Jack Vance
The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed botanical specimens.
~ Jack Weatherford
Reducing a complex problem to a simple chart excited the
~ Jack Welch
The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.
~ Jacob Burckhardt
Las emociones son pensamientos que no se pueden o quieren entender; siempre aparecen cuando hay un contacto con la máxima complicación. Son negativos cuando no se pueden entender; positivas cuando no se quieren comprender.
~ Jacobo Grinberg Zylberbaum
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
~ Jacqueline Carey
My lord. It is too much, and not enough
~ Jacqueline Carey
Our eyes met. We had so very many shared memories between us, Bao and I. Some were wonderous, and some were terrible. Some were both.
~ Jacqueline Carey