Quotes About Complexity

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

Anyone who understands evolution knows that it doesn't necessarily lead from simpler to more complex life-forms. Rather, it leads to life-forms better suited to their environments.

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.

Nobody understands what a producer does.

The fact of the matter is that nobody understands what John Coltrane is doing except John Coltrane. And maybe not even him. So we're all experiencing it on this subconscious level.

No one really knows how trademarks work. I don't mean, 'Come along with me on this journey and you will be one of the righteous few who truly understands!' I mean, no one really understands how trademarks work.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.

I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.