Quotes About Complexity

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

I knew that love would not turn the silver devil into an angel. He would remain what he was--subtle yet childish, unfeeling yet passionate, lost irretrievably to everything but his own desire. But he loved me--and I loved him, now and forever.

Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.

My sister's hard to understand when she has a breakdown," Rachael agreed. "She doesn't really mumble, but it's more like verbal kung fu. She has about six conversations at once and mixes them all up liked tossed salad.

Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

But now everything was lost: all the scattered effect of a real person, complicated beyond counting. (Post production, 197)

The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet well understood.

Unser Herz hat Platz für allerlei Widersprüche.

Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them.

It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist.

Une philosophie transformée devrait casser cette prétention, ne plus faire croire à elle-même et aux autres qu'elle dispose de l'infini. Mais au lieu de cela c'est elle qui, subtilement comprise deviendrait infinie dans la mesure où elle dédaignerait de se fixer dans un corpus de théorèmes dénombrables.

Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear.