Quotes About Complexity

I'm not looking to do 'Half Nelson' next, but to play anything that's a little more complex is really fun.

Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We're just adding additional information. Networks don't work like a match - they work like a magnifying glass.

Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.

If you were to explain The New Day to a new fan, you can't do it.

President el-Sisi of Egypt took over in a very complicated environment. He needed to give a new direction. It is quite a difficult job.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.

A lot of people look at me as such a nice guy; they don't understand how dangerous I can actually be.

Good fiction can both entertain and light up those dark corners where nice people don't want to go.

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

I think the characters Nick and Solomon, the characters on Fear Street,' were definitely further from myself. But I think ultimately I do try to look for the gristle in every character.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

I have nine compartments in my brain, and four of them don't stop.

I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

Africa has no future.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.